Amazon Systems Development Engineer II Support Engineering 

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town 

261425748

Key job responsibilities
• You lead the design, implementation and successful delivery of technical solutions for complex problems. This may be in the form of new software, systems, infrastructure, hardware, networking or automation improvements, or a refactoring of existing solutions.
• You deliver technology solutions which improve engineering and operational processes within your team, and work to apply those improvements to partner teams.
• You are a technical leader for your team; you are learning to force multiply through others.• You understand how your team’s systems interact with systems owned by others and work to improve consistency and integration between them.
• You think in terms of architecture, not just components or services, and show good judgement when making trade-offs between tactical and strategic concerns at team or service level. Your work on your team’s architecture yields significant resilience, performance or business value.
• You lead reviews of architecture, design, operations, process, or post-incident analysis for your team. You actively participate in reviews of systems owned by partner teams.
• You consistently work backwards from the customer experience to ensure correct solutions are built and incorrect ones are not.
• You influence your team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.
• You are an effective communicator. When disagreements occur, you harmonize discordant views and build consensus amongst peers across teams.
• Your systems, code, designs and implementation decisions set a great example to others. You work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things.
• You actively hire and develop others by leveraging your expertise, coaching and mentoring in your organization.
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- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 4+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

- Knowledge of a front-end language (Javascript, CSS, HTML, etc.)