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Senior Systems Engineer

Amazon.com Palo Alto, CA Information Technology

Amazon’s Advertising technology team builds the technology infrastructure and ad serving systems to manage billions of advertising queries every day. The result is better quality advertising for publishers and more relevant ads for customers. Our infrastructure supports millions of Internet users and handles billions of queries per day, all delivered in milliseconds. Our data platform processes massive data sets to develop business intelligence and analytics that are critical for the efficiency and profitability of our advertising business.

We are looking for a talented, energetic, and experienced systems engineer to join its Advertising Technology operations team. Our ad tech infrastructure powers state-of-the-art online advertising programs for Amazon.com as well as other premium online publishers, advertisers, and mobile developers across the globe. The supporting systems serve tens of billions of incoming requests from millions of Internet users every day, all processed in mere milliseconds.

In this role, you will:

  • Define and implement processes to improve the operational efficiency and stability of our serving systems
  • Help to build, configure, and manage distributed systems deployed across multiple continents in order to ensure high availability
  • Create tools, scripts, and documentation to manage, organize, optimize, and improve our systems
  • Help to resolve production issues and determine the root cause of problems
  • Assist with hardware capacity planning, management, and deployment
  • Design, configure, and deploy application monitoring and alerting

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience administering and operating web-scale production systems running on Linux or another Unix environment
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in networking, DNS, routing, NAT, load balancing, etc. as well as knowledge of AWS basics
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in scripting in at least one of Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with a global team in a 24x7x365 environment
  • Working knowledge and experience building and managing high-availability distributed systems and web services
  • Knowledge of Hadoop and Hive configuration, administration, and performance tuning
  • Experience building and managing production infrastructure on AWS
  • Experience with capacity planning and performance engineering
  • Understanding of advertising technologies and associated technical systems
  • Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence
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