Amazon · 3 months ago
System Development Engineer II, Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON)
San Jose, San Jose, CRI
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expAmazon’s Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) Team is looking for a System Development Engineer to join their team in San José, Costa Rica. The role involves creating and updating strategic SRE tool-kits built on AWS technology, ensuring operational excellence, and managing the cloud infrastructure that supports Amazon's websites and consumer experiences.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
We do almost everything in Linux. We’re looking for people who are not just hobbyists, but people who’ve tweaked their favorite distro to get things working just the way they like them
We need people with a solid grasp of networking fundamentals. This includes experience with load balancers, switches, and routers
We need people who can design, implement, maintain and deploy components that solve problems in a complex ecosystem. We work in lots of different languages (not limited to, but most often Python and Java). It is more important to us that you understand coding in the context of working in distributed systems and/or widely scaled web applications
We need people with strong written and verbal communication skills and an ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals
We want to work with people whose passion for problem solving goes hand-in-glove with their debugging and troubleshooting skills
We need people with an ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects. To us, that means being detail oriented, passionate, and delivering results
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
2+ 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
Preferred
Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Python and/or Java
Knowledge of best practices for software deployment
Experience with infrastructure management
Experience with eCommerce retail website(s)
Detail-oriented, passionate, and able to deliver results
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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VP & CTO
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