Job ID: | Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited
Who are we?
We host Amazon's websites.
That includes all of Amazon's global marketplaces and partner portals, and all of Amazon's consumer experiences like Kindle, Alexa, Amazon Video, Mobile Application; Physical Stores, Luna.
Not only do we help deliver the HTML that delights our customers, we make sure that all underlying transactions are processed error-free.
This includes payments, tax, contracts, returns, inventory, and notifications; and brand new experiences that have never been done before.
In short, we perform cloud infrastructure management at scale.
We are a diverse international team made up of engineers, developers, administrators, and managers.
We are obsessed with operational quality, security, reducing cost, increasing availability, and keeping the largest eCommerce infrastructure purring.
Our team has offices in Dublin, Seattle, New York, Sydney, Bangalore, and Hyderabad.
We are looking for Systems Development Engineers who are inventive, understand operational excellence, and can work to scale.
A big part of our job is creating and updating a strategic SRE toolkit built on AWS technology.
We use these tools across Amazon to deploy, monitor, and operate the hundreds of thousands of services that power our highly distributed architecture.
Our tools include orchestration, predictive analytics, monitoring, problem diagnosis, and automated repair.
These let us deploy configurations that intelligently manage how traffic flows through our highly distributed architecture to our delighted customers.
Key job responsibilitiesAs a System Development Engineer, you will:
Use technology to solve straightforward problems, seeking input and guidance from team membersCreate or have responsibility to improve or invent small tools or applicationsParticipate in team design, scoping, process, and prioritization discussionsWork effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisionsInvent, refine, and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goalsDevelop an understanding of the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of your team's infrastructure, including hardware platform, operating system, and build dependenciesProvide assistance to the team with troubleshooting, researching the root cause, and thoroughly resolving defects in the event of a problemBASIC QUALIFICATIONSBachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar
+2 years experience in software programming with at least one modern language
+2 years experience designing software/systems, implementing, maintaining, and deploying components that solve problems in a complex ecosystem
Experience working with Linux systems
Experience with network fundamentals (including load balancers, switches, routers, etc.
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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSMaster's degree in Computer Science or similar
Detail/data-oriented
Strong written & verbal communication skills; ability to communicate effectively to both technical & non-technical individuals
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