Amazon Senior System Dev Engineer Visual Search 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

611351602

In this role...In this role, you will be a senior member of the team, driving operational health of our systems. You will drive initiatives and identify recurring issues in our systems and help build more resilient infrastructure and monitoring setup. You will own campaigns related to improving our automated alerts and the on-call process. You will drive work related to companywide mandatory software upgrades, OS patching needs and create automation around such common asks for the team. You will build automation to determine health of our overall systems.Key job responsibilities
Key Job Responsibilities* Operational Excellence (OE): You’ll lead this charter for the team by introducing mechanisms, processes and advocating for OE culture with the objective of reducing and eliminating operational load. You will help the team handle things before they become problems. You will examine high severity events and prevent their recurrence. You will establish OE program to identify and drive resolution for team specific, cross-service and inter-service issues. You will introduce, review and own operational metrics/goals and be responsible for Service Level Objectives across Visual Shopping org.
* Systems Development: We develop and own high-throughput, cost-effective pipelines to support feature extraction and indexing for our web-scale Information Retrieval (IR) system. We own low latency, highly-available runtime systems. You will co-own these systems with the team, identify areas of efficiency areas across our stack in terms of development, deployment, hardware and observability.* Learning: You will partner with people in similar roles in other teams and bring back best practices.

- 5+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- 5+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- 5+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience building tools for building, testing, releasing or monitoring
- Bachelor's degree

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Preferred qualifications
- * Experience building services using AWS products
- * Experience in networking, storage systems and operating systems
- * Experience writing technical documents, tech project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders