Software Application Support Engineer, Retail Engineering

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Software Application Support Engineer, Retail Engineering

Austin, Texas, United StatesSoftware and Services

Austin, Texas, United StatesSunnyvale, California, United StatesWork Locations (2)

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This is an extraordinary opportunity for a hardworking support engineer to join a distributed team supporting the Apple Online Store, a multi-channel elite eCommerce platform. The role, technical in nature, requires the individual to gain deep technical knowledge and understanding of the eCommerce platform to provide technical support to our business and core engineering teams.

We are seeking strong people skills with excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to take sophisticated technical topics and distill them in easy to understand non-expert terminology, will round out the core responsibilities of the role. As a member of the support engineering team, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.

• Partner with engineering teams to prioritize and fix production defects

• Work non-standard hours to support your teams with ongoing incident mitigation, which may occur at any time/day of the week

• Share on-call rotation with other team members to support apps and services in scope

• Take knowledge transition from engineering teams for changes being rolled out in production

• Assess the need for production monitoring and alert setup

• Triage incidents based on the impact, devise and implement mitigation steps to unblock the business

• Conduct RCA, log defects and partner with engineering team for prioritization

• Automation, maintain support documentation and debug sophisticated production issues

• 3+ years of software engineering or application support experience in a large-scale environment

• Coding knowledge in Java, Scala or frameworks related to Java

• Strong knowledge of PL/SQL

• BS degree and equivalent experience or higher in CS or related field

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills to solve complex problems

• Skills and experience in monitoring, alerting, fault analysis, and automation

• Excellent follow through, organizational ability, and flexibility in a dynamic, demanding environment

• Strong communication skills and ability to drive triage of critical issues with multiple technical and business teams

• Knowledge NoSQL databases, Unix Shell Scripting

• Working experience on cloud infra, such as AWS, and experience with Splunk or any other APM tool

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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