The Amazon Payments supports multiple payment products and processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars moving at lightspeed through our systems annually and use our products on and off Amazon.
We build systems that provide various payments features and process payments at an unprecedented scale with accuracy speed and missioncritical availability. We innovate to improve customer experience across the globe with support for currency choice pay using installments pay with reward points instore payments pay on delivery credit and debit payments seller disbursements gift cards and many new exciting and challenging ideas are in the works.
If you are excited about the opportunity to learn and work on large scale distributed systems enjoy trouble shooting and solving complex problems consider the opportunities at the Bangalore center. Come challenge yourself in our teamoriented atmosphere and watch yourself grow with one of the fastest growing areas of the Amazon ecommerce product and services platform.
Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
1. Problem Solving and Solution Design:
Identify and solve ambiguous problems architectural deficiencies or areas where your teams systems hinder the innovation of other teams.
Design and deliver pragmatic efficient and costeffective technology solutions to address complex business problems.
Make appropriate tradeoffs and reuse or extend prior work where possible.
Thoroughly test your work and ensure clear accurate and concise documentation.
2. Strategic Contribution and Influence:
Participate in strategic planning and decisionmaking with customers partner teams and peers.
Work backwards from the customer experience balancing customer requirements with team requirements and influencing your teams goals and programs.
Participate in your organizations Operational Planning process.
Actively review your teams technology solutions and operations.
3. Team Mentorship and Development:
Train new teammates helping them understand your teams customers systems and processes.
Participate in hiring and developing others and effectively mentor team members within your organization.
4. Operational Excellence:
Deeply understand your teams systems and thoroughly diagnose problems in all aspects of operations including hardware software and operating environments.
Resolve the root cause of difficult performance reliability or availability issues and deliver innovative solutions.
Learn how your teams components behave as part of the larger organizational system and analyze systems to identify operational risks at the product or service level.
Participate in design operations and postincident reviews to identify risks to resilience and deliver projects that mitigate those risks.
Improve operational excellence across teams and provide guidance to peers outside your own team.
A day in the life
L5 System Development Engineer II will be responsible for designing and delivering innovative technology solutions that address complex business problems. L5 Sysdev will a) work autonomously with the ability to seek direction from peers and managers when needed. b) will consider the longterm implications of the systems you build ensuring they are scalable efficient and costeffective. c) will be a trusted technical contributor participating in strategic planning and decisionmaking with customers partner teams and peers.
4 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Minimum 4 years of experience in system development and engineering
Proven track record of designing and delivering innovative technology solutions to complex business problems
Strong problemsolving and critical thinking skills
Strong Coding Scripting troubleshooting and debugging skills
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities with the ability to work effectively with crossfunctional teams
Experience in strategic planning and decisionmaking with the ability to balance customer and team requirements
Expertise in diagnosing and resolving complex operational issues with a focus on improving system resilience
Experience in mentoring and developing team members
Experience with distributed systems at scale
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