Systems Development Engineer, Amazon

Brazos, Approvals and Business Order Information

Salary not provided
Python
C#
Java
Ruby
C++
Powershell
Golang
Mid and Senior level
Austin
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Open for applications

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Python
C#
Java
Ruby
C++
Powershell
Golang
Mid and Senior level
Austin

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

  • Great candidates for this position possess a sound understanding of computer science and a passion to make a profound impact for our international business customers
  • Our ideal candidate excels in a fast-paced, energetic, and enjoyable work setting where we prioritize incremental and frequent value delivery
  • We highly appreciate engineers who are technically skilled, practical, data-oriented, and possess deep knowledge in their field, while also being open to learning new domains
  • We seek individuals who prioritize personal and team development as we continuously learn from our customers
  • 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
  • Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
  • Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

Desirable

  • Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

What the job involves

  • The Amazon Business team is looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering an amazing experience to our international business customers
  • We focus on merging the customer experience, selection, pricing, and convenience that consumers have come to expect and love from Amazon with the features and functionality required by our business customers
  • We need a Systems Development Engineer to help design, develop, and support our complex infrastructure environment and automate manual processes
  • In this role you will assist on larger projects or run smaller opportunities solo
  • The ideal candidate possesses extensive technical knowledge and practical experience with DevOps tools and practices
  • The Systems Development Engineer is willing to get hands-on in designing and coding modules for infrastructure, application, and processes
  • This role will provide exposure to Amazon Business Approvals tech stack that affects both external and internal customer experience
  • The right candidate will identify and resolve issues, automate processes, maintain service infrastructure, and work closely with cross departmental teams to achieve business goals while ensuring platform security and reliability
  • The team's mission is to provide our customers with simple, yet flexible solutions that streamline procurement from requisition to payment, while supporting, managing, and enforcing spend control policies for responsible and compliant acquisition of goods and services
  • Key goals include eliminating rogue spend, delivering world-class procurement oversight functionalities, developing robust Approvals-based control mechanisms, owning and enhancing the Amazon Business Approvals product, and providing the Approvals Framework infrastructure to enable tailored approval workflows
  • Through these objectives, we empower our customers to achieve their procurement goals
  • Experience taking a significant role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers
  • Support application end users as a creative problem solver with a passion for innovation and customer experience
  • Read and understand complex application code to enhance or implement fixes to existing applications based on business needs
  • Recognize opportunities for optimizations, efficiencies or scaling
  • Perform vulnerability remediation and application patching
  • Manage technical projects with high attention to detail
  • Improves service resilience and performance of applications and services
  • Actively support and foster a culture of inclusion

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
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

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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