System Development Engineer II, FinTech

Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable Financial systems that support Amazon's current and future growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Does the prospect of working with top engineering talent get you charged up? If so, Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is for you

Amazon Finance Technology is looking for a highly motivated System Development Engineer to help build Amazon's business critical financial systems and build system solutions to operate at scale. You will work on critical finance business functions for our customers around the world while meeting system availability goals and ensuring system performance with growing business needs. You will discover innovative ways to automate and scale our infrastructure as we expand globally. You will work together with multiple teams and departments, with plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.

The ideal candidate has a passion for understanding computing systems and for applying that understanding with an obsession for delighting customers. In this role, you will apply your skills of system design, networking, coding/scripting languages, as well as technical communication and project organization to make your impact on improving our business processes. The candidate is expected to contribute work critical initiatives, build products, lead engineers to troubleshoot, debug, evaluate and resolve computer-identified alarms, make feature enhancements, systems management, perform software deployments and migrations, host management and automate the operational tasks.

They would also be responsible to develop tools and end to end automation to achieve human free operations.

As an Engineer in the team, you will take part in in the architecture, design, implementation and deployment of large-scale and complex software systems. You will get to leverage your experience and expertise to deliver innovative solutions to challenging problems. You will communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customer. You enjoy collaborating with others to increase the effectiveness of the overall team. Your code, design, and implementation decisions should set a great example to other engineers. You will also have the opportunity to impact the technical decisions in the broader organization as well as mentor other engineers in the team.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ 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)
• 4+ years of hands-on infrastructure, troubleshooting, systems administration, networking, DevOps or applications development experience
• Experience leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
• Knowledge of operating systems, hardware, storage, network, security, database administration and cloud infrastructure
• Experience in computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis)
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems, or experience in managing and troublshooting network and experience in software development

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Experience with AWS platforms, services, and design patterns
• Experience in technical support, or experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery
• Experience with AWS technologies
• Experience with server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems
• Excellent leadership, verbal, and written communication skills Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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