Principal Systems Development Engineer, Amazon
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required
- Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland
- Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union
- 10+ years of experience in software development or related field
- Experience operating and troubleshooting reliable, scalable software systems
- Proficient in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Typescript, Python, or Ruby
- Able to troubleshoot at all levels, from network to operating systems to software applications
- Proficient communicator across languages, cultures, and time zones
- Able to periodically travel to meet with internal engineering teams, leaders, and customers
Desirable
- Highly Proficient in operating 24x7 high-availability, distributed software applications
- Desire to dive deep into, and find opportunities to improve, the reliability, availability, and performance of distributed software systems
- Experience influencing and leading strategic efforts requiring work from multiple teams
- Experience actively mentor individual engineers and managers
- Experience performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization
- Strong understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, load shedding)
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code, (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar)
- Proficient with operating services in AWS
- Experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)
- Experience scripting operating system tasks in Bash, Python, etc
What the job involves
- You’ll balance your time between operating production systems and making long-term improvements to the reliability, availability, and performance of those software systems
- An example week could look like: Monday you provide meaningful feedback on the most critical upcoming change whilst guiding the most senior technical talent in your organization to make more decisions without you
- Tuesday you identified a major reliability risk in the interplay between systems in your care and designed a cohesive solution
- On Wednesday you lead the design review with the relevant technical leaders, receiving consensus on a path forward
- Thursday, you influenced your senior management to take goals and make investments to achieve that outcome
- Friday, you begun developing part of that system which would have the most impact on the reliability of the overall system
- Requirement to participate in On-Call rotation
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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