Software Development Engineer II, Transactional Data Storage

Amazon; Dublin; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an engineer for the Transactional Data Storage team in Dublin. This role focuses on designing and operating distributed control plane services for Sable, Amazon's mission-critical OLTP storage platform. The ideal candidate should be proficient in software development with a strong emphasis on reliability and system performance.

The position offers a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with Principal Engineers and contribute to innovative solutions that enhance operational excellence. Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.

Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience with full software development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate distributed control plane services for Amazon's OLTP storage platform.
• Collaborate with engineers to define solutions for complex problems.
• Own end-to-end delivery of features from design through deployment.
• Build and maintain monitoring and automation for operational excellence.
• Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot production issues.
• Write well-tested, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews.
• Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, performance, and efficiency.

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Software programming languages

Design patterns

Job description

Description

The Transactional Data Storage org builds data platforms which are at the core of Amazon’s consumer and digital businesses. Our OLTP storage platform, Sable, processes billions of transactions every day around the globe. We own multiple tier-1/mission-critical services fueling the growth of Amazon businesses to store customer orders, catalog and product information, shopping cart, Kindle device information, and hundreds of other business critical data-sets. The performance and availability of our platform is critical to the reliability of the Amazon brand. We run some of the largest fleets and the highest throughput services at Amazon. We partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage technologies built for cloud customers, and to offer technologies we invent through AWS channels to the broader market.

We are looking for a passionate engineer who understands distributed systems at scale and is interested to learn about database systems from database engine design to operating a tier-1 flagship product. This engineer will work with PEs and other engineers to enhance the Control Plane which determines how the system scales to support millions of requests, how it recovers from disasters, how does it perform cross regions data movement and many other admin operations. This role will contribute to design, development, testing and operations for Sable control plane. An engineer in this role will have strong sense of ownership, high bar for operational excellence and proven record of solving hard technical problems from design to delivery.

Key Job Responsibilities

Design, develop, and operate distributed control plane services that manage scaling, disaster recovery, cross-region data movement, and administrative operations for Sable - Amazon's mission-critical OLTP storage platform.

Collaborate with Principal Engineers and senior engineers to define technical solutions for complex problems in areas such as observability, automated scaling, fleet management, and system resilience.

Own end-to-end delivery of features from design through deployment, including writing design documents, implementing production-quality code, and driving operational readiness.

Build and maintain monitoring, alarming, and automation to ensure the highest bar of operational excellence for tier-1 services processing billions of daily transactions.

Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Write well-tested, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews that uphold team quality standards.

Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, performance, and efficiency, and drive those improvements from proposal to production.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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