Support Engineer , WWGST Checkout Engineering Services (CES)
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a technical leader within the organization setting standards and best practices.
- Lead and drive resolution of highly complex production issues.
- Influence organizational technical decisions.
- Partner with leadership to guide career growth of team members.
- Lead support retrospectives and author Corrections of Error (COEs).
- Drive systematic improvements to product/system performance and availability.
- Proactively identify and execute opportunities to improve operations.
- Detect trends and define proactive solutions before problems occur.
- Influence design decisions.
- Break down complex problems into actionable solutions that can be worked in parallel.
- Author and review technical documentation.
A day in the life
- Reviewing overnight incident reports and addressing any critical issues that occurred during off-hours.
- Mentor junior engineers providing guidance on troubleshooting.
- Analyze system metrics to identify potential bottlenecks and improvements.
- Lead a support retrospective from a recent LSE.
- Collaborate with product managers on upcoming feature releases and their potential impact on system stability.
- Author a Correction of Error (COE).
- Participate in a design review for a new microservice architecture solution.
- Conduct a technical deep dive with your team.
- Updating your project status report and planning tomorrows priorities including preparation for an upcoming presentation to senior leadership on support process improvements.
- 4 years of software development or 4 years of technical support experience
- Experience scripting in modern program languages
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflow
- Experience troubleshooting and documenting findings
- Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications
- Experience with Point of Sale (POS) Systems
- Experience with Payments Systems
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Austin - 90400.00 - 158200.00 USD annually
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