Senior Systems Development Engineer, Amazon
ART19
$121-235.2k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$121-235.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
- 3+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 6+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Track record of building and delivering mission critical 24x7 production software systems
Desirable
- Experience in SRE principals and establishing SRE program parameters
- Strong knowledge of AWS services such as ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda and VPC
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform
- Demonstrated experience in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines and automation tools, such as GitLab
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and monitoring best practices
- Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker, ECS, and ECR
- Strong object-oriented design and experience with web application development using Ruby on Rails
- Experience with data and data warehousing technologies such as Redshift / PostgreSQL / Druid
- Experience with application monitoring strategies and tools
- Experience with observability technologies such as Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, etc
- Proficiency with CDN technologies such as Fastly
What the job involves
- * Solving problems at scale excites you
- * You are interested in being part of a high-bar team with responsibility for the Network Security software used across all of Amazon’s businesses
- * You talk to customers and design solutions to their problems; you automate and innovate
- * You believe that the craft of software engineering is about writing code right the first time. For you, code reviews and automated testing are not chores – they are a core part of writing great software
- * You do not throw your code over the wall. You launch it, own it, support it and make it incrementally better for the benefit of customers
- * You enjoy working in a flexible, fast-paced, collaborative team environment
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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