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    Software Development Engineer, AWS Support - Cape Town, South Africa - Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited

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    Amazon Web Services ("AWS") is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.

    AWS offers over 100+ fully featured services to millions of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing start-ups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies and organizations.

    AWS Customers are continuing to leverage AWS Services for applications ranging from exploratory to targeted innovative solutions to business-critical systems.

    Kumo is the software engineering organization that scales AWS's support capabilities.

    Amazon's mission is to be earth's most customer-centric company and this also applies when it comes to helping our own Amazon employees with their everyday IT Support needs.

    Our team is innovating for the Amazonian, making the interaction with IT Support as smooth as possible.

    We achieve this through multiple mechanisms which eliminate root causes altogether, automate issue resolution or point customers towards the optimal troubleshooting steps for their situation.

    We deliver the support solutions plus the end-user content with instructions to help them self-serve.

    We employ machine learning solutions on multiple ends to understand our customer's behavior, predict customer's intent, deliver personalized content and automate issue resolution through chatbots.

    About AWS

    Diverse Experiences
    AWS values diverse experiences.

    Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

    If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

    Why AWS?
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.

    We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

    Inclusive Team Culture
    Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

    Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

    Mentorship & Career Growth
    We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer.

    That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

    Work/Life Balance
    We value work-life harmony.

    Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

    When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

    Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)


    AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

    Key job responsibilities

    In our team, engineers have the opportunity to contribute to the complete vertical stack of an SOA based system, which is horizontally connected to most systems in the larger Amazon ecosystem.

    Our SDEs use a variety of open source technologies, native AWS services as well as services internal to AWS.

    We code mostly in Java, JavaScript and Ruby (RoR), and build on technologies powering the web such as Angular/Bootstrap, Node and Elastic Search as well as a broad range of in-house Amazon Cloud technologies and native AWS technologies, such as Route53, Lambda, API gateway, AppSync, KMS, AWS Connect, Lex, Kendra, Redshift, QuickiSight and DynamoDB.

    Our team is growing and hiring software development engineers at all levels.

    Depending on the level, you will demonstrate knowledge in the following disciplines at varying levels:

    • Software Development
    • You recognize and adopt best practices in software development engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
    • You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code
    • You can define APIs and integrate them into usable interfaces
    • You understand how web applications work, perform and scale. You are comfortable with troubleshooting and problem analysis
    Problem Solving

    • You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
    • You develop pragmatic solutions. You build flexible/scalable systems without over-engineering and choose simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones. Where existing solutions are known, you use them.
    • You understand fundamental data structures and algorithms and know how, when and when not to use them.
    • You anticipate and prevent future problems from occurring
    We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

    Cape Town, ZAF

    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

    • 3+ years of computer science fundamentals (objectoriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
    • 3+ years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
    • Experience programming with at least one software programming language
    • Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
    • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
    • Understanding or experience of API development using Java and Kotlin.
    • Experience with AWS services and serverless technologies
    Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

    Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.

    In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa.

    Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.



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