
Support Engineer III-Ext - AMZ10449041
Portland, ORFull-time$121–164K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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The Support Engineer III-Ext provides technical support to customers through phone, chat, and email, resolving complex issues across AWS services. The role works with development teams to improve service support, communicates with customers during critical events, and creates technical learning materials. It also assists with AWS architecture, migration, and performance troubleshooting, and mentors junior support engineers.
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Description
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Employer: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC.
Offered Position: Support Engineer III-Ext
Job Location: Portland, Oregon
Job Number: AMZ10449041
Position Responsibilities:
Provide technical support, including fielding and handling customer issues via phone, chat, and email. Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions for critical, highly complex, customer problems that span multiple AWS services. Work with development teams to establish and improve end-to-end service support. Drive customer communication during critical events. Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the AWS customer community and internal training. Assist customers on a wide variety of topics, including AWS cloud architecture, migration and troubleshooting complex performance issues. Mentor junior support engineers.
Position Requirements:
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept three years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to a bachelor's degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) Linux or Windows systems administration; and (2) at least one of the following: (i.) database administration in MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS-SQL, or MariaDB; (ii.) working with one of the following NoSQL technologies (DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra), and ETL tools in managing data workflow jobs; (iii.) Network administration (DNS, TCP/IP, BGP, Load Balancing, software-based IPSEC, SSL-based VPN solutions), and Virtualization (Hypervisors, VMware, or Xen); (iv.) working with one of the following programming languages (C++, Java, C#, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, or Ruby); or (v.) Chef/Puppet experience or DevOps back-ground and demonstrated knowledge of Git, Perforce, SVN, or TFVC.
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.
40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $121,000/year to $163,700/year.
Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit:
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000
Basic Qualifications
Position Requirements:
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept three years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to a bachelor's degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) Linux or Windows systems administration; and (2) at least one of the following: (i.) database administration in MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS-SQL, or MariaDB; (ii.) working with one of the following NoSQL technologies (DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra), and ETL tools in managing data workflow jobs; (iii.) Network administration (DNS, TCP/IP, BGP, Load Balancing, software-based IPSEC, SSL-based VPN solutions), and Virtualization (Hypervisors, VMware, or Xen); (iv.) working with one of the following programming languages (C++, Java, C#, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, or Ruby); or (v.) Chef/Puppet experience or DevOps back-ground and demonstrated knowledge of Git, Perforce, SVN, or TFVC.#0000
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Please see job description and the position requirements above.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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How this job compares
Set against the 362 open Technical Support Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$121–164K/yr
- US median$90–151K/yr240 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $142K, is 12% above the US median midpoint ($128K) — in the top quarter of Technical Support Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 362 open Technical Support Engineer jobs across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Technical Support Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 264 postings).
- Education
- 60 of the 362 open Technical Support Engineer jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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