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Amazon System Development Engineer II, AWS, Network Alerts in Dublin, Ireland
Description
The Network Alerts team in AWS is looking for System Development Engineers to help building systems that monitor the AWS network, one of the world’s largest and most complex network. Tens of millions of customers rely on this network for using our retail websites, accessing content on their Kindles and building applications and businesses on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our success depends on our state of the art network infrastructure, and keeping it reliable, fault tolerant by diagnosing impairments depends on the Network Alerts team.
We have an amazing opportunity for you to join this world-class software development team that has the feel of a start-up. As a System Development Engineer you will help to deploy, manage, fix and optimize the tools, services and components that our engineering teams rely on to automate our network and keep it operational. Your customers will be the network engineer and operators all over the world, different network fabric owners as well as any AWS services who depend on a network indistinguishable from perfect. Through close collaboration, support and exchange of ideas, we share a common goal to serve our external customers and grow through learning and innovation.
If you are exceptionally motivated and passionate about the work you do then we welcome you to join us, working in an agile environment with the most advanced tools, processes and talented people in the industry to make the cloud a reality.
What you’ll be working on:
Simplifying and optimizing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
Managing and developing 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
Top reasons to join our team:
Deliver network observability products/solutions that is monitoring AWS network 24x7
Define, build, own, and run multiple services in an enormous scale environment (we are talking about multiple trillions in an hour)
Build and influence the tools, utilities and pipelines that are part of the AWS infrastructure running all the internal systems
Learning from industry recognized Amazon senior, principal & distinguished engineers
About the team:
AWS Network Alerts owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of the core monitoring and detection engines for AWS Network. We work on a set of most challenging problems, with huge amount of data, thousands of variables impacting the AWS network and we’re looking for talented people who want to solve these with us.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, system and data engineers, scientists, technical program managers, software managers and other vital roles.
Basic qualifications:
Knowledge of computer and system engineering fundamentals (computer architecture, networking, storage and operating systems).
5+ years of experience (non-internship) in professional development.
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, fault tolerance and scaling) of new and existing systems.
Experience in hands-on ops processes, systems engineering, tool development and maintaining large scale systems in bare-metal servers.
Experience of extensive programming with at least couple of languages such as Bash, Python, Go, Rust & Typescript.
Preferred qualifications:
Decent experience of working on building softwares following SDLC
Strong experience of infrastructure design, infra as code, writing and managing pipelines, and automation.
Strong experience with Bash, Python, Typescript or Go.
Experience of managing distributed stateful softwares in a fleet of servers, with solid networking and SLAs.
Experience of working in a team following Scrum/Kanban or any other agile methodologies.
Key job responsibilities
A SysDE is responsible for maintaining their teams’ services, requiring them to troubleshoot and identify the root causes of any infrastructural issues that arise within their systems and any subcomponents. A SysDE will utilise testing, monitoring, and validations on their services, tools, and infrastructure to ensure their teams can continuously deploy new versions of the services with minimal interruption. A SysDE is expected to identify areas to optimize, refine, and develop automation and tools to reduce manual effort and fulfil the requirements of the business and their customers. Moreover, a SysDE will continuously take part in proposing infrastructural architecture improvements, cost optimization techniques and develop capabilities to make those happen.
About the team
AWS Network Alerts owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of the core monitoring and detection engines for AWS Network. We work on a set of most challenging problems, with huge amount of data, thousands of variables impacting the AWS network and we’re looking for talented people who want to solve these with us.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, system and data engineers, scientists, technical program managers, software managers and other vital roles.
Diverse Experiences
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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 Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
Experience working in a high pace DevOps
Experience working in an Agile environment
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