Software Development Engineer, Amazon
CloudFront Routing
Relocation package available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Relocation package available
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
- Do you enjoy watching the latest movies, television shows, or sporting events on your computer, tablet or smartphone?
- Do you hate waiting for your pages to load or your show to re-buffer
- Do you want to contribute to systems that deliver a flawless experience in serving content from the edge?
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
What the job involves
- CloudFront Routing organization is looking for experienced Software Engineers to join our team in vibrant nightlife and atmosphere location Dublin, Ireland
- At AWS CloudFront, working on systems with global scale is a daily part of the job
- As part of CloudFront Routing team, you will own and run one of the largest DNS and BGP infrastructure in the world
- You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles
- You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers
- And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion
- Being a Software Development Engineer in CloudFront Routing organization, you will have the ownership on the core components (like Anti-DDoS, Flash traffic management, DNS Services, Anycast @scale, Availability systems and services)
- Our engineers are empowered to make self-driven decisions on the right technologies to solve problems at Global Scale
- So, you will be writing docs to get feedback and consensus from other Sr. Engineers/Principal Engineers to make decisions in finding the optimal solutions for large scale problems, picking programming language (we use Rust, Java, Go, C/C++, Python), selecting native AWS services, purpose-built infrastructure in the edges for meeting the goals
- You will also have the end-to-end ownership opportunity on all aspects of service life cycle ideation, design, development, building monitoring and alerting and then operationalizing the services that you build
- You will learn and incorporate the data points to make decisions in building the services for future traffic growth
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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