About the Role

The Application Engineer role at Amazon's Retail Business Services (RBS) involves providing technical leadership and support for services, leading multi-team projects, and resolving complex support issues. The position requires expertise in software development principles, database systems, and troubleshooting, with a focus on improving operational efficiency and mentoring team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as subject matter expert and technical lead for one or more services
• Lead large multi-team projects and resolve complex support issues
• Design and develop complex high-performing scripts and applications
• Provide on-call support for alarm monitoring, infrastructure, and bug fixes
• Mentor, train employees and play significant role in hiring

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

• 5+ years of software development or technical support experience
• In-depth understanding of software development principles, design patterns and best practices
• Good understanding of relational database management systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
• Experience in Unix and scripting in modern programming languages

Nice to Have:

• Hands on experience in Cloud technology
• Hands on experience with distributed applications/enterprise applications
• Experience in developing automated solutions
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting RESTful web API calls
• Experience working in AWS eco-system leveraging AWS services

Benefits & Perks

• Work-life balance with focus on work-life harmony
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities
• Training through online learning platforms and AWS/ML certifications