Systems Development Engineer, AWS Incident Response (AIR)

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to lead the response to critical customer-impacting incidents on the AWS Incident Response (AIR) team. You will triage impact, identify root causes, coordinate mitigation with service teams, and drive real-time resolution.

Your work informs automation and tooling to shorten future events and reduce customer impact. The role blends systems development with on-call incident leadership, offering exposure to AWS

Qualifications

• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems).
• Experience designing or architecting scalable, reliable systems.
• Hands-on experience in networking, storage systems, and operating systems.
• Proficient in at least one modern language: C++, C#, Java, Python, Go, PowerShell or Ruby.

Responsibilities

• Drive the resolution of large-scale customer-impacting incidents as part of on-call rotation, leading incident calls and coordinating resolver teams.
• Design, build, and enhance incident detection, triage, and mitigation automation tools.
• Author COEs and deep-dive docs to identify improvement opportunities and drive action items.
• Identify recurring platform issues and own projects to eliminate operational problems.
• Collaborate globally to expand incident response capabilities across regions and services.

Skills

Systems engineering fundamentals

Networking

Storage systems

Operating systems

Programming languages: C++, C#, Java,/

Job description

AWS Incident Response (AIR) ensures the high availability of Amazon Web Services by making customer-impacting events shorter and less frequent through incident detection, management, and automated mitigation. Our systems monitor AWS infrastructure in real-time, automatically detect impairments, and orchestrate responses to minimize customer impact across regions and services.

As a Systems Development Engineer on the AIR team, you will lead the response to critical customer-impacting events — triaging impact, identifying root causes, coordinating mitigation actions with service teams, and driving resolution in real-time. Not every event is solved by automation; you will use your technical judgment to assess situations, engage the right teams, and direct mitigation strategies when manual intervention is required. Insights from these events directly inform the automation and tooling you build — creating a continuous improvement loop where each event makes the next one shorter or prevents it entirely. This role offers a unique combination of systems development and real-time operational leadership, with direct impact on the availability of AWS services used by millions of customers.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive the resolution of large-scale customer-impacting incidents as part of an on-call rotation (including weekends and holidays), leading incident calls and coordinating resolver teams across AWS service organizations
• Design, build, and enhance incident detection, triage, and mitigation automation tools
• Author COEs and event deep-dive documents to identify improvement opportunities; create and lead action items that improve processes, tooling, and automation
• Identify recurring platform issues and own projects that eliminate entire classes of operational problems
• Collaborate with teams globally to expand incident response capabilities across AWS regions and services

A day in the life

A Systems Development Engineer on the AWS Incident Response (AIR) team has full visibility on all AWS services! There are limitless opportunities to learn as you will work with all AWS internal teams and have exposure to AWS products and services. When on-call, your day may start with a large-scale event — you join the conference bridge, assess the scope of impact using real-time dashboards, identify impaired services, engage the right teams, and drive mitigation until the event is resolved. After the event, you lead the deep-dive, document findings, and create action items to prevent recurrence. When off-call, you spend your time building and improving the tools that make incident response faster and more automated. You might be writing code to improve event detection logic, building dashboards that surface the right signals during triage, or working on automation that reduces manual steps during mitigation. You participate in design and code reviews and collaborate with engineers across AIR to drive operational improvements. You also invest time in learning AWS service architectures — understanding how services fail helps you respond faster when they do.

About The Team

AWS Incident Response (AIR) is a globally distributed team responsible for leading the large-scale customer-impacting events across AWS. We operate 24/7, providing incident leadership and coordination for events that span multiple services and regions. Our engineers combine hands‑on incident leadership with systems development — we build the automation and tooling we use, and each event teaches us how to make the next one shorter or prevent it entirely. The team values operational excellence, continuous learning, and a bias for action. We work closely with service teams, networking, and infrastructure organizations across AWS, giving our engineers broad exposure to how AWS operates under the hood.

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• 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 handling large enterprise technical customer escalations
• Experience delivering results for large, cross‑functional initiatives/projects, or experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large‑scale infrastructure

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Company

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited

Job ID

A10472909