System Development Engineer, Just Walk Out Tech

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Join us on our mission to revolutionize the way the world shops. We are the Amazon Physical Stores Technical Operations team, responsible for launching and operating the commerce software services which run stores with its "Just Walk Out" technology.

Our approach to problems is entrepreneurial. You will be challenged to invent, create and solve challenging problems as well as wear many hats and collaborate in an environment that's more startup than big company. You will need a strong ability to troubleshoot hardware, software, and network issues.

Key job responsibilities
As a SysDev Engineer, you seek resolution to problems and mitigate risk, always ensuring a Customer Obsessed experience has occurred. You will be working on services with a direct impact on the customer experience. If you are excited about the opportunity to learn and work on distributed systems, enjoy trouble shooting and solving complex problems, consider the opportunities to work with Amazon Physical Stores.

You will help solve a variety of challenges and offer your expertise in growing the knowledge of your peers via team collaboration. You will be counted on to identify areas of improvement and drive projects to implement them. We consistently whiteboard so be comfortable writing and supporting your ideas on the team board. You will play an active role in defining the support processes for technologies in partnership with other technology leaders within and possibly outside the team. You should be comfortable with a level of ambiguity that's higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving big challenges. You will also mentor other engineers in your area of expertise. Along the way, we guarantee that you'll work hard, have fun and impact many customers

About the team
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Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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