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Software Development Engineer, Lambda - Experience

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24 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate globally available distributed systems for the AWS Lambda control plane.
  • Develop high-throughput, strongly consistent public APIs serving Lambda customers and CloudFormation.
  • Build asynchronous workflows that orchestrate function creation, code deployment, and version publishing.
  • Ensure configuration changes propagate safely to the correct compute fleet and region with appropriate ordering guarantees.
  • Design for availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and operation under partial failures.
  • Own solutions end-to-end from API contracts through data-plane handoff.
  • Participate in on-call support and collaborate on diagnosing and resolving production issues.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
  • Professional, non-internship software development experience, or software development experience within the last three years.
  • Experience with at least one programming language such as Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C#, or C.
  • Experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling, or experience debugging, profiling, and applying software engineering best practices in large-scale systems.
  • Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems and managing full application stacks from the operating system through custom applications.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Preferred: experience designing and building applications using AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Kubernetes.

Benefits

  • Includes on-call responsibilities with team-based support for operational issues.
  • Provides mentorship, training, task-based growth opportunities, and an inclusive team environment.
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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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