Software Development Engineer - Lambda, AWS Lambda Control Plane

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited in Dublin is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the AWS Lambda Control Plane. You will design, build, and operate the distributed systems that connect customers to the Lambda data plane and own the full path from API request to running function.

You will work on high-throughput, globally available services, solving metadata propagation at scale and ensuring strong availability guarantees even during partial failures.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or architecting scalable distributed systems.
• Professional software development experience (non-internship).
• Experience programming with at least one software language.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate distributed systems that sit between customers and the Lambda data plane.
• Own the full path from API request to running function and ensure public surface APIs are high-throughput and globally available.
• Design asynchronous workflows to propagate customer intent (new function, code deploy, version publish) safely across systems.
• Ensure metadata propagation at global scale with correct ordering guarantees, even under partial failures.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Java

Python

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Description

Software Development Engineer — AWS Lambda Control Plane (Dublin)

When millions of builders ship their Lambda functions, it all just works — in seconds, anywhere in the world. The machinery that makes that possible is the control plane: the systems that validate, orchestrate, and propagate every function's state so the data plane can execute it flawlessly at any scale.

As Part Of The Team You'll Design, Build, And Operate The Distributed Systems That Sit Between Customers And The Lambda Data Plane

You'll own the full path from API request to running function. The APIs you build are the public surface of Lambda — high-throughput, strictly consistent, globally available — serving customers and CloudFormation alike.

Behind those APIs, you'll design the asynchronous workflows that orchestrate a function's lifecycle: taking a customer's intent — a new function, a code deploy, a version publish — and propagating it safely to the systems that actually execute functions.

That means solving metadata propagation at global scale: ensuring every configuration change reaches the right compute fleet, in the right region, with the right ordering guarantees, even under partial failures.

We operate at the scale of one of the largest services in AWS. Availability is a first-class design constraint, not an afterthought.

What we're looking for

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production — the kind where "retry" isn't a strategy, it's a starting point.
• Comfort with ambiguity: you'll own problems end-to-end, from API contract through data-plane handoff.
• Strong fundamentals in at least one of: Java, Python, or TypeScript (our stack spans all three).
• A bias toward simple, operable solutions — systems that are easy to reason about at 3 AM.

About The Team

We're a Dublin-based engineering team within AWS Lambda. We invest in growing engineers through meaningful ownership, direct mentorship, and exposure to problems that don't have textbook answers. We value diverse perspectives and hire for collaboration — the best systems here are built by teams, not individuals.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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Company

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited

Job ID: A10442119