Site Reliability/Platform Engineer, Amazon

Sys Dev Engineer, ESC

Salary not provided
AWS
Python
C#
Java
Ruby
C++
Golang
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Dublin
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Open for applications

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Open for applications

Salary not provided
AWS
Python
C#
Java
Ruby
C++
Golang
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Dublin

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

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

  • Relevant experience in software development, systems engineering, SRE or DevOps roles
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Practical understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)
  • Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (host networking, storage, *nix operating systems)
  • Demonstrable experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, C++, C#, Java, Golang, Ruby

Desirable

  • Experience with Python
  • Experience of designing, developing or operating cloud services running on AWS or another cloud platform

What the job involves

  • Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
  • Managing and growing innovative, production-quality tools to solve real operational problems for our network
  • Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assist in fixing them so they don't come back
  • Providing technical solutions to real business problems in a global organization
  • Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
  • Define, build, own, and run a service in a high growth environment
  • Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
  • Learning from industry recognized Amazon distinguished engineers

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16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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

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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