Support Engineer, Amazon

Cloud Services, AWS

Salary not provided
AWS
JSON
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
AWS
JSON
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • You like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the most complex technical problems
  • Excited by the prospect of building and running the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to provide a better world for future generations
  • Experience in software development, or experience in technical support
  • Experience scripting in modern program languages
  • Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems

Desirable

  • Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development
  • Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID
  • Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON

What the job involves

  • To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation
  • AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry
  • As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services
  • If you join us, you'll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up
  • This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain world class experience in cloud computing
  • You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing, believe that first class service is critical to customer success, and are committed to improvement
  • Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
  • Define, build, own, and run services in high growth environments
  • Solve unique and first-order problems in massive-scale areas such as compute services, DynamoDB/NoSQL databases, Glacier, S3 data lakes and many other AWS Services
  • Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale
  • Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
  • Amazon has a collaborative, purposeful and enthusiastic environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History
  • On a typical day engineers might deep dive to determine the root cause of a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way, consult with the top engineers at Amazon, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues
  • If you join us as a Support Engineer; you will own support activities for these services and regularly work with development teams to establish and improve service support
  • You will operate with guidance from your team and quickly drive issues to resolution
  • You understand the business logic and architecture of your supported services that enable you to regularly resolve undocumented trouble tickets
  • You regularly contribute to the creation and improvement of support documentation
  • You may perform code builds and deployments, communicating status regularly before, during, and after each deployment
  • You create and interpret metrics that measure support success and service performance

Salary benchmarks

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

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

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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