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Software Development Engineer, AWS Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited
Position: Software Development Engineer, AWS Support
Work hard, have fun, and make history at AWS! Amazon Web Services has been rated one of the most admired companies globally, both for Innovation and Customer Service. At AWS Kumo, you will be on the forefront of driving Cloud innovation for industry leaders around the globe.
Kumo (pronounced ‘Koo-mo’, the Japanese word for “cloud”) is the global product and engineering organization for AWS Support, a multi-billion $ business. Kumo’s products, used by AWS customers and the internal Amazonian teams that help them, are vital to ensuring exceptional customer experiences on AWS. Kumo has a broad portfolio of customer-facing and internal services. Our public-facing properties include AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Health, Automation, Recommendations & Insights, AWS Support Center, AWS Knowledge center, and many more.
Our internal AWS Support teams rely on Kumo services to interact with AWS customers, diagnose and resolve customer issues, and safely share information across AWS teams. These services must work seamlessly, and be available when AWS services are not. Any changes to these tools has a force multiplicative effect on how customers experience AWS and the efficiencies of the internal workforce.
The Kumo organization is globally distributed, with larger teams located in Seattle – Washington, Cape Town – South Africa, and Vancouver – Canada.
We are looking for engineers to join our team in building the services that allow AWS customers to communicate with AWS Support Engineers. Your work will be the face of AWS Support to our customers; you will work to expand the communication channels we support so that our customers can reach out with convenience, within the context of their work. You will utilize cloud-native technologies developed right alongside you: AWS Lambda, Dynamo
DB, API Gateway, etc. You will innovate on the user experience by working closely with our customers and partners.
Our team applies modern development practices and utilizes native AWS tools to do them. We operate in a multi-region redundant environment to ensure reliability; we continuously deploy to all regions through an automated pipeline; we use Cloud Watch and other tools to help us monitor and diagnose. We loosely follow an agile methodology, and most of all, we focus on getting things done and delivering value to customers.
We combine the culture of a startup, the innovation and creativity of a R&D Lab, the resources, support, and work-life balance of a mature organization, and technical challenges at the scale of AWS. Come join us!
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.
Amazon knows that a diverse, inclusive culture empowers us all to deliver the best results for our customers. We celebrate diversity in our workforce and in the ways we work. As part of our inclusive culture, we offer accommodations during the interview and onboarding process. If you’d like to discuss your accommodation options, please contact your recruiter, who will partner you with the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT).
You may also contact ACAT directly by emailing We want all Amazonians to have the best possible Day 1 experience. If you’ve already completed the interview process, you can contact ACAT for accommodation support before you start to ensure all your needs are met Day 1.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
· Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Kotlin, Java and other object-oriented languages.
· Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in micro-services, container, and distributed cluster-compute architectures.
· Collaborate with high calibre engineers in the industry to work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing.
· Own and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.
· Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of a Scrum team.
· Influence the system architecture, own…
Title: Software Development Engineer, AWS
Company: Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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