Application Engineer III
DESCRIPTION
Are you passionate about reading? Are you a fiction addict or do you love reading biographies and non-fiction ? Do you consider yourself a learner for life ? Do you like to transport yourself to another world when you read a great work of fiction ? Do you love to read hardcopy of the books but at the same time like the convenience of carry thousands of books on Kindle ? Do you want to make reading on Kindle, a more delightful experience ?
Amazon Books mission statement is "We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading." Books team in Amazon is its oldest business and Kindle has been the leading the digital transformation of this centuries old business.
KNFE team within Amazon books is engaged on thinking and building features for Kindle which will make reading a delightful and differentiated experience. Our team owns key customer facing features like X-Ray, Notes/Highlights, Popular highlights, Search inside a book, PhotoQuotes and many more. We own these features end-to-end. We are responsible for the backend micro-service architecture, the ML that powers these features as well as the seamless CX on iOS, Android and E-reader.
Key job responsibilities
- Perform software deployments, support operations, software upgrades and migrations
- Support and enable faster software delivery by maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating them.
- Knowledge on Java, Python scripting languages.
- Troubleshoot, debug, evaluate and resolve identified alarms
-Problem-solving and passion for operational excellence
- Must be able to prioritise, follow-through with detail-orientation independently.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of software development, or 2+ years of technical support experience
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in Unix
- Experience scripting in modern program languages
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- - Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON
- - Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development
- - Experience troubleshooting & maintaining software
- - Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON