Support Engineer

Description Selling on Amazon is one of the company's fastest-growing businesses. Since 1999, third-party sellers have grown to account for 58% of Amazon sales, with a 52% annual growth rate compared to 25% for Amazon's first-party sales. The Selling Partner Financial Technology team aims to enable every partner to thrive globally by providing a trusted, simple, and intuitive financial experience. We support Stores Partners with foundational capabilities for financial event onboarding, balance tracking, payouts, collections, risk reduction, and internal financial reporting.

Currently serving 2.7M+ active sellers across 35+ Amazon internal businesses, we apply state-of-the-art technology to solve complex business problems. Our projects have significant visibility and impact, directly tied to Amazon's profitability and growth. We seek Software Development Engineers (SDEs) who want to stretch both their technical abilities and business awareness.

Ideal candidates will have sound technical acumen and enthusiasm for real-world problem-solving, an innovative mindset and persistence in tackling challenges, broad technical skills to optimize data synthesis and complex business rules, and the ability to employ the latest technology in supporting Amazon's next-generation selling partner services. As a team member, you'll gain unique insights into Amazon.com's operations, from back-end systems to business models and selling partner relationships.

The role requires exemplary analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, passion for maintaining highly reliable, distributed systems operating 24/7/365, effective collaboration with internal users, cross-functional development teams, and technical support, as well as excellent communication skills, self-motivation, flexibility, and a strong work ethic. Join our top-notch engineering team to build innovative software, develop advanced customer experiences, and make history while having fun!

Key job responsibilities

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 Java

Software deployment support in staging and production environments

Develop tools to aid operations and maintenance

Work with engineering team for taking over active support issues and creating a team specific knowledge base and skill set

Basic Qualifications

4+ years of software development, or 4+ years of technical support experience

Experience scripting in modern program languages

Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems

Experience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflow

Experience troubleshooting and documenting findings

Experience analyzing and troubleshooting RESTful web API calls

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications

Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating system

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 70,100.00 - 117,000.00 CAD annually

Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC

Job ID: A10464306

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