Amazon Application Engineer E-reader Platform 

India, Tamil Nadu 

178549884

Amazon Kindle is a customized operating system that is purpose-built and optimized for book reading (and note-writing) purposes. As a support engineer, you would be mining through a large set of logs to identify patterns of data and develop & maintain various productivity tools. You would also own monitoring key metrics, maintain dashboards for them, and also create automated alarms to detect failures. You will partner with multiple teams internally for successful root-causing of issues and in creating dashboards to monitor the health of Kindle.Key job responsibilities
An Application Engineer in E-reader platform team is a developer with the primary responsibility of writing test frameworks and automation tools to test products. It is a very unique and challenging role and provides immense opportunity to design and develop wide-reaching tools. It combines the "building" aspect of software design engineering with the "breaking" aspect of software test engineering. You’ll be writing code that automatically verifies the quality of the product. That means that you could potentially write more code than the developers.A day in the life
In this role, youDesign and build the automated test frameworks and test suites for use in development and testing cyclesDesign and develop tools and dashboards that will help developers and testers.Participating in design review and code inspections.

- 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 dealing effectively with customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure

- Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating system
- Experience troubleshooting and documenting findings