The Kindle Ingestion and Expansion (KIX) team enables independent authors, content creators, and publishers to publish their content as eBooks for distribution to the Kindle Store, Kindle Unlimited, and the Kindle Owners' Lending Library; as well as in print formats for sale on Amazon's global marketplaces, bookstores, and other online retailers using Amazon's state-of-the-art Print on Demand (POD) technology.
KIX is an important part of Amazon's vision to provide its Kindle and print book customers with the world's largest selection in the format they prefer – eBook or paperback.
The KIX Support Engineering team provides tier 2&3 production support and is responsible for providing multifaceted services to the Kindle digital product family of development teams and working with production operations teams for software product release coordination and deployment.
This job requires you to hit the ground running, and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success.
Key Job Functions Include:Provide support of incoming tickets, including extensive troubleshooting tasks, with responsibilities covering multiple products, features, and services.Work on operations and maintenance driven coding projects, primarily in shell scripts and web technologies, with the potential for Java-based projects.Software deployment support in staging and production environments.Develop tools to aid operations and maintenance.System and Support status reporting.Ownership of one or more Digital products or components.Customer notification and workflow coordination and follow-up to maintain service level agreements.Work with the support team for handing-off or taking over active support issues and creating a team-specific knowledge base and skill set. A Day in the LifeInclusive Team culture: At Amazon, we embrace our differences and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion.
We host annual and ongoing learning experiences.
Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work-Life Balance: We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment.
We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth: Our team is dedicated to supporting new members.
We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional.
Minimum Qualifications:2+ years of software development or 2+ years of technical support experience.Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.Experience in Unix.Experience scripting in modern programming languages. Preferred Qualifications:Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development.Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID.Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
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