System Development Engineer II

• 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems including operations in a large scale production environment.
• 5+ years of Systems Engineering / Administration including experience in a large distributed environment.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures & algorithms, problem solving, and complexity analysis5+ years experience in shell, Perl and/or other scripting languages.
• 3+ years of Amazon Web Services.
• 3+ years of experience using system monitoring suites, understanding of and defining metrics collection, collector configuration and definition, and topology architecture.
• 2+ years experience in a DevOps environment supporting large scale production environment.
• Ability to produce high quality technical and supporting documentation.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technology related field or equivalent professional experience.

Responsive Amazon Fulfillment Technology (RAFT) engineers and owns the foundational software tools and services used by other software teams to build, deploy and managed applications on mobile devices at Amazon Fulfillment Centers worldwide. Our software solutions are relied upon by hundreds of thousands of associates at thousands of locations across the world and are critical to the delivery of shipments to Amazon retail customers. We recently started expanding our tools and services to support more mobile devices to meet our customers’ growing needs.

You will be solving challenging problems and developing scalable, high-performing solutions that require minimal long term sustaining and development support. You will partner with Systems Engineers, Network Engineers and Software Engineers globally to develop simple and efficient technology that supports our Fulfillment Centers. Working with a wide variety of technologies and projects that range from third party enterprise solutions to open source and proprietary inventions. Technicians and Engineers worldwide will look to you for mentorship, guidance and solutions to complex business problems that are unique to Amazon. We value ingenuity, simplicity, and scalability in our designs. In your day-to-day work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand.

• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Knowledge of professional system engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience mentoring junior engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
• Experience influencing software engineers best practices within our team
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
• Experience with mobile development, e.g. Android or iOS