Job Description
DESCRIPTION
As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
Come and build the future with us as we redefine the email communication experience for people and applications!
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is on a mission to revolutionize email experiences for our customers and their end users. We are at the forefront of creating richer, more engaging email functionalities, innovating at every step to provide a seamless, unified experience.
As a Software Development Engineer for Amazon SES, you'll work on backend and customer-facing systems, contributing to the development and improvement of our email services. You'll focus on building reliable and scalable solutions, collaborating with other engineers to solve complex technical challenges, and ensuring our services are highly available and scalable to meet the needs of our global customer base.
As a member of the SES engineering team, your job will allow you to work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to translate strategic business needs into features and projects, with an opportunity to participate in strategic planning, contributing to the overall direction of the service.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have strong design and coding skills. The candidate will be a catalyst for change by working with the various product managers and principal engineers to code and design flexible and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges. If you are passionate about delighting business users with great and compelling cloud based solutions, then we would like to talk to you.
As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon SES team, you will:
. Design, develop and support a world-class search platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes
· Produce code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java, Python, React, and C/C++
. Work on challenging problems in areas such as data storage, query optimization, JVM performance optimization, security, machine learning and more.
· Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
· Possess expert knowledge in large scale distributed system design and engineering best practices
· Participate in setting a vision and objectives for Search Services in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities
· Drive and work on algorithm and architecture design, execute and deliver results
· Invent the future of search and log analytics in the cloud
· Join a great group of motivated, top-notch, people and work with them to solve challenging problems in a fun, collaborative environment
About the team
Amazon SES is building a team to build richer and more engaging experiences to our customers. We are innovating new ways for enable businesses to run targeted campaigns and drive user engagement through email.
In the SES team you will be joining an engineering team where the entire development of the service occurs in Dublin. You will have the opportunity to impact the service roadmap and be given the time to be creative and think of new features that we can provide our customers. You will own and implement specific components, build highly available, secure, scalable, distributed and event-driven systems and help define the system architecture.
This is a full-stack development position, leaning towards back-end work.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Job Tags
Full time, Internship, Worldwide, Flexible hours,