7 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement highly available, horizontally scalable distributed systems with strict durability and latency guarantees.
- Own technical designs for large features and multi-quarter initiatives, translating ambiguous problems into deliverable plans.
- Solve distributed-systems challenges involving replication, consistency, partitioning, reliability, security, and performance.
- Drive operational excellence through observability improvements, root-cause elimination, best practices, and on-call participation.
- Analyze data to optimize service performance and cost.
- Lead design and code reviews and establish technical best practices.
- Mentor SDE Is and SDE IIs through code reviews, design guidance, and pair programming.
- Maintain current technical knowledge and introduce appropriate new technologies.
Requirements
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Experience leading architecture and design for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Professional, non-internship software development experience.
- Experience programming in at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
- Development experience within the last three years.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience with the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of the company culture.
- AWS provides mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-growth resources.
- Employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups and inclusion events support an inclusive team culture.
- The role is based in Dublin, Ireland.
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.