Software 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
- Enjoy seeing the impact your work has on real customers
- Are comfortable in an agile environment and understand the importance of working/developing iteratively
- Enjoy being part of a strong team of technologists and collaborating with them to build BIG things
- Take ownership and do what it takes to get the job done
- Want to create services at a massive scale used by millions of people
- Are naturally curious about how systems operate at scale and think of ways to constantly improve those systems
- Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Desirable
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Deep knowledge of Internet protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP, and UDP
- Strong programming skills, preferably in C, C++ or Java
- Proficiency with object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills
- Thorough understanding of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
- Familiarity with the Linux development environment
- Experience in TDD techniques & Continuous Integration
- Work experience delivering one or more V1 products, ideally in a startup or similar setting
- Experience building large-scale web services backed by cloud services, such as AWS
- Experience in building distributed systems
- Experience operating large scale systems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Must be a self-starter and motivated
What the job involves
- 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 video from the edge? Good - us too
- AWS Cloudfront is looking for experienced Software Development Engineers to join our team in Dublin
- At AWS Cloudfront, working on systems with global scale is a daily part of the job
- We solve hard problems
- We build reliable, scalable, low-cost systems that serve our ever-growing customer base
- We are constantly shipping features that drive innovation in the CDN market
- We deliver an elegant geo-distributed platform to serve not only video from the edge, but a wide variety of use cases
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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