Solutions Engineer, Developer Solutions and Engineering, Developer Solutions and Engineering

Are you passionate about mobile apps As a Solutions Engineer for Content Apps and Partner Engagement (CAPE) team you will develop world class technical solutions to enable developers distribute their apps and games within the Amazon Appstore and grow their businesses. As a Solutions Engineer you will work with third party developers to analyze and resolve issues with application development for general Android Amazon mobile SDKs and APIs as well as Amazon Fire devices. You will be interacting with both external developers and internal teams via a number of communication channels to drive solutions that meet developer needs. If you have a passion for the app space a solid understanding of the technologies involved and a strong ability to communicate clearly and advocate for mobile app developers this role is for you.

Key job responsibilities
- Escalation level debugging and troubleshooting for app developers
- Analyzing solving and creating solutions for developers
- Developing documentation and other materials to support developers
- Act as a subject matter expert for Amazon mobile APIs and Services as well as Amazon Devices
- Driving projects to improve the Amazon developer experience
- Provide engineering support of our incoming tickets including extensive troubleshooting and debugging with responsibilities covering multiple product lines.
- Work on maintenance of coding projects primarily in Perl or shell scripts web technologies and Java based projects.
- Read and understand complex application code and make code fixes to resolve support issues
- Develop tools to aid operations and maintenance.
- Ownership of one or more Digital products or components.
- Customer notification and workflow co-ordination and follow-up to maintain service level agreements.
- Work with engineering team for handing-off or taking over active support issues and to create a team specific knowledge base and skill set.

A day in the life
The SE team currently has four key responsibilities: 1) Ongoing Steady State Support across partners 2) Feature Integration and New App Launch Support 3) Operational Excellence to improve time-to-resolution and reporting on tactical support and 4) Tier-2 support for un-managed partner apps and drive issues to closure working with internal product teams to assist in resolution as needed.

About the team
CAPE Developer Support & Engineering (DSE) team manages technical support for customer and partner issues and app feature integrations on Managed Video Partner apps (SPARQ based partner segmentation in US/CA & International countries)

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4 years of technical support experience
- Experience with programming/scripting (Batch VB PowerShell Java C# Chef Perl Ruby and/or PHP) or experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities and experience with web-based applications and HTTP

- 4 years of software development with object oriented language experience
- Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (java python etc.)
- Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP HTTP WSDL XSD and REST
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating system
- Experience troubleshooting issues and root cause analysis
- Experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service or experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities and experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Proven track record in working on enterprise level large scale n-tier applications

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Sunnyvale - 109900.00 - 185000.00 USD annually