24 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Build next-generation, highly available and scalable in-memory database services for AWS ElastiCache and MemoryDB.
- Design and implement horizontal and vertical scaling, data replication, sharding, and migration algorithms.
- Develop robust authentication and authorization protocols for distributed database systems.
- Contribute new features and performance optimizations to open-source Valkey and collaborate with its community.
- Lead architecture and design for new and existing systems, including reliability and scaling considerations.
- Participate in daytime on-call approximately once every two to three months and proactively investigate and resolve operational gaps.
Requirements
- Professional, non-internship software development experience is required.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team is required.
- Experience leading architecture and design for new and existing systems is required.
- Programming experience in at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design, is required.
- Experience developing software within the last three years is required.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes the full software development life cycle, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Benefits
- Most days are co-located in the Dublin office, with occasional remote work supported.
- Core in-office hours are generally 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with flexibility around working hours.
- Daytime on-call is typically scheduled once every two to three months, without expected overnight or weekend paging.
- The team provides onboarding buddies, mentorship, knowledge sharing, design reviews, and career development resources.
- The workplace emphasizes inclusive culture, diverse perspectives, mutual respect, and work-life balance.
About Amazon
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.