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Amazon is all in on games. We believe, the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and eSports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scales. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future’s most influential voices in media and art, come join AWS Game Tech.

We are an Amazon Web Services team obsessed with helping game developers revolutionize the way they build and run their games, helping them bring their ideas to market faster and at a lower cost. We aim to address game development challenges for customers at any scale. Our solutions are used by Indie developers working on mobile games, as well as some of the largest studios building triple-A titles for consoles and PCs.

What you'll do:

  • Learn and use groundbreaking technologies
  • Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs
  • Interact with leading technologists around the world
  • Work directly with Amazon Web Service architects to help reproduce and resolve customer issues
  • Provide input into product vision, technical design, and operational decisions
  • Leverage your experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services
  • Drive customer communication during critical events

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Some Linux or Windows system administrator skills
  • Experience with web-based applications and HTTP
  • Knowledge of client/server and distributed systems architectures
  • Experience scripting or developing in at least one of the following languages:
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • PHP
  • Java
  • .NET (C#)
  • JavaScript
  • iOS (Objective-C / Swift)
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Customer service experience / strong customer focus
  • Strong multi-tasking skills
  • Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills and experience
  • Self-starter who is excited about learning new technologies on a daily basis

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience developing against and working with REST API based services
  • Prior working experience with AWS
  • Experience with Cloud architecture patterns and distributed computing concepts
  • Exposure to Mobile application development (iOS / Android)
  • Exposure to Game development
  • Messaging and Queueing experience
  • Detailed knowledge of networking protocols: DNS, HTTP, SSL, SMTP, TCP
  • Exposure to security concepts / best practices
  • Experience with iperf, MTR, traceroute, dig
  • Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications

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