About this role

Amazon is hiring a mid-level Support Engineer in the services function based in Chennai, India. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, AWS, Linux.

Role: Support Engineer
Function: services
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Chennai, India
Department: Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
Posted: Jul 9, 2026

Job description

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Support Engineer in DEP leads their Supporting engineering team in identifying opportunities to innovate based on tickets that the team receives. They mentor and coach junior support engineers. They assist their manager in maintaining the productivity levels of their team through automation and refinement of processes

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, python, or shell scripts, and AWS technologies

Software deployment support in staging and production environments

Develop tools to aid operations and maintenance

System and Support status reporting

Ownership of support for one or more payment products or components

Customer notification and workflow coordination and follow-up to maintain service level agreements

Work with dev team for handing-off or taking over active support issues and creating a team specific knowledge base and skill set

Basic Qualifications

- 2+ years of software development, or 2+ years of technical support experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in Unix
- Experience scripting in modern program languages

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with AWS, networks and operating systems

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