Systems Engineer, Amazon
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
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 are a self-starter, comfortable dealing with ambiguity and change
- You are customer-obsessed, always looking to understand customer pain points and find resolutions quickly and completely
- You communicate clearly and collaborate with others to deliver results
- Advanced knowledge in Linux system administration
- Experience of systems automation using BASH, Python, Perl, etc
- Practical understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)
- Good troubleshooting skills at all levels, from application to network to host
Desirable
- Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or relevant work experience
- Exposure to cloud computing concepts and design considerations
- Advanced knowledge of configuration management systems, such as: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems
- Experience with performance testing and tuning
- Experience in a 24x7 production environment
- Significant experience of monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)
- Significant experience of systems automation using BASH, Python, Perl, etc
- Significant experience of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)
What the job involves
- 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 a service in high growth environment
- Solve unique and first-order problems at massive-scale across many 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
- On a typical day engineers might dive deep into understanding the root cause of a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way and consult with the top engineers at Amazon
- We own our services and believe in making out-of-hours support as painless as possible
- To achieve this, we implement Operational Excellence best practices and strive to automate manual processes
- As a Systems Engineer at Amazon you will utilise your Linux skills to troubleshoot, innovate fixes and workarounds, keep software up-to-date and provide data and metrics that help manage the capacity and efficiency of our services
- You will draw on your networking knowledge to identity and troubleshoot network connectivity issues
- You understand system design best practices and the importance of implementing systems and services that are secure, scalable, reliable, resilient, efficient and performant
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 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
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(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 (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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