Systems Development Engineer, Enterprise Engineering

Amazon; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an experienced Systems Development Engineer to design, implement and maintain enterprise-scale services across Amazonians. You will work on serverless components and automation, building self-service solutions to increase productivity and reliability.

The role emphasizes design, coding, and hands-on engineering in an enterprise environment, with after-hours paging for high-severity incidents and a focus on scalable, secure infrastructure across global teams.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals.
• Non-internship experience in professional software development.
• Experience designing or architecting systems with reliability and scaling.
• Hands-on experience with networking, storage, OS and systems engineering.
• Programming in at least one language (C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain enterprise-scale services used across Amazon.
• Develop scripts or tools to automate infrastructure and service management.
• Support and operate serverless components (e.g., DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway).
• Participate in after-hours paging for high-severity events as needed.

Skills

Systems engineering fundamentals

Professional software development

Modern programming languages

Cloud/serverless concepts

Tools

C++

C#

Java

Python

Golang

PowerShell

Ruby

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Systems Development Engineer with deep expertise in designing and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure. You will be responsible for the design, implementation and quality of services you deliver to Amazonians.

Who are you? You have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. You have experience working as a systems development engineer or in an enterprise environment, with hands‑on native AWS experience and have implemented automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems. You enjoy writing code and creating tools to manage your services. You're passionate about success. You understand different people have different needs to be productive, and strive to develop self‑service oriented solutions. You have a passion for learning, designing, and building cloud computing systems for a diverse set of customers.

The focus for this role is building, enhancing, and maintaining extensible services used across Amazon. These systems leverage serverless systems such as DynamoDB, Lambda, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, among others.

Key job responsibilities

Systems Development Engineers at Amazon is a unique role which organically emerged as the company evolved. Inspiration for the Systems Development Engineer came from Systems Engineers who "built" unique technology to solve business and customer problems.

Systems Development Engineers perform traditional Systems Engineering and write or develop scripts, applications, or mechanisms to manage infrastructure. This role was created for the "builder" population of Systems Engineers who go beyond using basic tools and GUIs to implement infrastructure as code and even serverless systems.

This role requires scheduled after hours paging for high‑severity events related to all of the team's services and systems. Paging availability is required for after‑hours weekday, weekend and holiday coverage. The pager rotates throughout the team to balance the load.

About the team

Enterprise Engineering owns the key products, services, and tools Amazonians use to securely and reliably access corporate resources, communicate with one another, and collaborate with customers.

Enterprise Engineering builds services ranging from network access to customer‑facing software to meet the needs of our number one customer: Amazon. All Amazonians and variable staff rely on our products at all Amazon Corporate, Customer Service, Fulfillment, Retail, and affiliate sites across the globe.

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

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