System Development Engineer-II, Amazon

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a technical expert to join their team in London. The role involves problem-solving, mentoring, and operational excellence to enhance their innovative payment solutions. Candidates should have experience with modern programming languages and large-scale infrastructure, contributing to strategic planning and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Experience automating and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• Proven track record of delivering innovative technology solutions.
• Experience mentoring and developing team members.

Responsibilities

• Identify and solve ambiguous problems and architectural deficiencies.
• Train new teammates and participate in hiring.
• Resolve complex operational issues to improve system resilience.

Skills

Problem-solving

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Education

Experience with CI/CD pipelines

Experience programming with modern languages

Experience with Linux/Unix

Job description

1. Problem Solving and Solution Design:
Identify and solve ambiguous problems, architectural deficiencies, or areas where your team’s systems hinder the innovation of other teams.
Design and deliver pragmatic, efficient, and cost-effective technology solutions to address complex business problems.
Make appropriate trade-offs and re-use 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 decision-making with customers, partner teams, and peers.
Work backwards from the customer experience, balancing customer requirements with team requirements and influencing your team’s goals and programs.
Participate in your organization’s Operational Planning process.
Actively review your team’s technology solutions and operations.
3. Team Mentorship and Development:
Train new teammates, helping them understand your team’s customers, systems, and processes.
Participate in hiring and developing others, and effectively mentor team members within your organization.
4. Operational Excellence:
Deeply understand your team’s 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 team’s 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 post-incident 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.

About the team
Amazon Pay’s mission is to be the most preferred way for Amazon customers to pay, no matter where they are paying. We deliver experiences that bolster the trust customers already hold for Amazon. We consistently improve our product to drive differentiated convenience and value customers expect from Amazon, with features that Amazon can deliver for our customers better than anyone else. We are a start-up within one of the world’s largest companies, embracing a “how might we?” mindset in front of any obstacle we face to scale.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Proven track record of designing and delivering innovative technology solutions to complex business problems
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Experience in strategic planning and decision-making, 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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