Description

　　Amazon’s network is a key differentiator for Amazon Cloud Computing and Web Services (AWS), enabling the global operation of thousands of applications across millions of servers worldwide. The AWS Networking team develops and operates the network platform for all of Amazon including e-commerce products and cloud computing solutions. This platform is industry-leading for its efficiency, throughput and reliability, and it is critical to the success of hundreds of thousands of AWS customers.

　　The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity for software innovation that Amazon’s network presents and about web services in general. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality solutions in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. If you're looking to solve challenging technical problems and create great products that protect and enhance customer availability, then we would like to talk to you.

　　As a senior technical individual contributor, the candidate will join the ranks of Amazon Principal, Senior Principal or Distinguished Engineers. As such, you’ll be a technical leader. You will help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You’ll work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. Amazon.com senior technical contributors are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you’re hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.

　　Key job responsibilities

　　• Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.

　　• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.

　　• Lead the design, get hands dirty and write code, and ultimately deploy successful enterprise-level systems that can be leveraged for a broad set of business use cases.

　　• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions that demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.

　　• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.

　　• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.

　　• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior art in design decisions.

　　• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.

　　• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

　　• Work effectively with product development and engineering teams across multiple geographies.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Dublin, D, IRL

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms

　　Experience (non-internship) in professional software development

　　Bachelor's degree

　　• Deep hands-on technical expertise in: large scale Unix systems engineering, building and operating complex distributed systems

　　• Experience in an object oriented, high-performance language such as Java, C++, or C#

　　• Strong understanding of performance, memory and I/O

　　• Understanding of web services technologies such as HTTP, WSDL, and REST

　　• Strong understanding of system and application performance characteristics

　　• Ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment

　　• Passion for developing products which provide a great customer experience

　　• Motivation to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technically challenging area, for example building complex distributed systems or building large scale networking software systems

　　• Big Data – for example, with experience with Hadoop, Spark, HBase and NoSql databases

　　• Master's degree in computer science or related technical field

　　• 15-20+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience

　　• Experience leading the delivery of APIs and SDKs

　　• Experience leading the delivery of Applications, ideally large-scale distributed systems

　　• Experience in Software As A Service

　　• Experience in building infrastructure for machine learning applications would be nice to have

　　Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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