Application Engineer , Amazon Gift Cards

This role is part of the rekindle returnship program. The role offers an opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, work with diverse customers worldwide, and engage in a dynamic, varied work environment. You will be required to deeply understand the technology landscape and evaluate the use of new technologies. As an influential member of the team, you will collaborate with peers and senior leaders to define and refine the standards for operational excellence across Amazon Payment Products. You will consistently address abstract issues spanning multiple functional areas, driving your team to pursue scalable improvements across other teams, services, and platforms.

Key job responsibilities

• A technical background (BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline/experience)
• 2+ years experience
• Strong Unix base O/S experience or proven ability to pick up Linux quickly
• Ability to do scripting (any one of Shell, Perl, Python etc.)
• Strong debugging/troubleshooting skills • Familiarity with programming languages Java or Python
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Strong understanding of support - tickets, monitoring, processes and metrics
• A passion towards problem-solving • Strong decision-making ability
• Must be able to think proactively; excellent follow-through and attention to details
• Knowledge on distributed applications/enterprise applications is plus.

Note: This role is part of the rekindle program. For more details on rekindle program, please visit - https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/rekindle

About the team

The Amazon Consumer Payments supports multiple payment products and processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars moving at light-speed through our systems annually, and use our products on and off Amazon. We build systems that provide various payments features and process payments at an unprecedented scale, with accuracy, speed, and mission-critical availability. We innovate to improve customer experience across the globe, with support for currency choice, pay using installments, pay with reward points, in-store payments, pay on delivery, credit and debit payments, seller disbursements, gift cards, and many new exciting and challenging ideas are in the works. If you are excited about the opportunity to learn and work on large scale distributed systems, enjoy trouble shooting and solving complex problems, consider the opportunities at the Bangalore center. Come challenge yourself in our team-oriented atmosphere, and watch yourself grow with one of the fastest growing areas of the Amazon e-commerce services platform.