Support Engineer II, Selling Partner Identity Verification (SPIV)

Selling Partner Identity Verification (SPIV) team ensures that Amazon is a safe and trustworthy place to shop and an amazing place to build a successful business selling products. We support this mission through providing a secure and accurate Identity verification platform. Identity verification is becoming a critical component to protect our customers from bad actors and provide fast and secure registration and account management capabilities. We provide an end to end solution for identity verification and account lifecycle management for various Amazon businesses across globe (North America Europe Japan China and more). Our customers include Mechanical Turk Selling on Amazon Amazon Pay Amazon Flex etc. We continuously strive to scale our systems to serve millions of Amazon customers with high accuracy least friction in a highly secure manner to enable a safe and secure shopping experience for customers.

Engineers in the team need a strong understanding of Computer fundamentals and practical experience in working with large scale distributed systems. Experience with web services-based applications especially at massive scale is helpful.

Come join the exciting journey to outsmart the fraudsters and provide a secure environment for our customers through identity verification !!

Key job responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include troubleshooting diagnosing and fixing production software issues developing tools automation and monitoring solutions performing software maintenance and configuration implementing the fix for internally developed code (JAVA) updating tracking and resolving technical challenges and improving operational excellence and readiness of the systems.

Some of the key job functions

Provide support of incoming tickets including extensive troubleshooting tasks with responsibilities covering multiple products features and services

Work on operations and maintenance driven coding projects primarily in Java Python or shell scriptsAWS web technologies projects.

Software deployment support in staging and production environments

Develop tools to aid operations and maintenance

System and Support status reporting

Ownership of one or more Digital products or components

Customer notification and workflow coordination and follow-up to maintain service level agreements

Work with support team for handing-off or taking over active support issues and creating a team specific knowledge base and skill set

- 2 years of software development or 2 years of technical support experience
- Bachelors degree in engineering or equivalent
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in Unix
- Experience scripting in modern program languages

- Experience with AWS networks and operating systems

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