Description

　　Amazon SES is building a team to build richer and more engaging experiences to our customers. We are innovating new ways for enable businesses to run targeted campaigns and drive user engagement through email.

　　In the SES team is looking for a System Development Engineer to join a fast growing engineering team where the entire development of the service occurs in Dublin. You will have the opportunity to impact the service roadmap and be given the time to be creative and think of new and creative ways to scale our service and provide increased availability. As a System development engineer in SES you will instrumental in building, deploying, operating and scaling one of the largest email senders on the planet.

　　We are looking for candidates who thrives in a fast paced start-up like environment and want to invent the future. That is excited to work on a highly efficient large scale distributed systems and is excited to push the limits to automate anything and everything. If you are a person that is passionate to help drive service scaling to a massive scale while working towards eliminating human touch in the process then you should apply.

　　On-Call Responsibility

　　This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.

　　Mentorship & Career Growth

　　Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.

　　We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

　　Inclusive Team Culture

　　Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes we do get to build a really cool service, but we also think a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we try to cultivate every day.

　　We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building.

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

　　Dublin, D, IRL

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

　　Experience (non-internship) in professional software development

　　Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

　　Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering

　　Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java

　　Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

　　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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