Checkout Engineering Support Engineer, GRAISE Checkout Engineering

Amazon

Amazon

Customer Service
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Sep 16, 2025

DESCRIPTION

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Support Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be a technical leader within the organization, influencing technical strategy while setting standards for the organization and other support engineers. You'll drive complex technical solutions across teams and play a key role in shaping the organization's support capabilities and operational excellence strategy.

Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a technical leader within the organization, setting standards and best practices.
- Lead and drive resolution of highly complex production issues.
- Influence organizational technical decisions.
- Partner with leadership to guide career growth of team members.
- Lead support retrospectives and author Corrections of Error (COEs).
- Drive systematic improvements to product/system performance and availability.
- Proactively identify and execute opportunities to improve operations.
- Detect trends and define proactive solutions before problems occur.
- Influence design decisions.
- Break down complex problems into actionable solutions that can be worked in parallel.
- Author and review technical documentation.

A day in the life
- Reviewing overnight incident reports and addressing any critical issues that occurred during off-hours.
- Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on troubleshooting.
- Analyze system metrics to identify potential bottlenecks and improvements.
- Lead a support retrospective from a recent LSE.
- Collaborate with product managers on upcoming feature releases and their potential impact on system stability.
- Author a Correction of Error (COE).
- Participate in a design review for a new microservice architecture solution.
- Conduct a technical deep dive with your team.
- Updating your project status report and planning tomorrow's priorities, including preparation for an upcoming presentation to senior leadership on support process improvements.