Software Development Engineer Lambda, AWS Lambda Control Plane

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 functions state so the data plane can execute it flawlessly at any scale.

As part of the team youll design build and operate the distributed systems that sit between customers and the Lambda data plane:

Youll 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 youll design the asynchronous workflows that orchestrate a functions lifecycle: taking a customers 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 were looking for

- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production the kind where retry isnt a strategy its a starting point.
- Comfort with ambiguity: youll 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
Were a Dublin-based engineering team within AWS Lambda. We invest in growing engineers through meaningful ownership direct mentorship and exposure to problems that dont have textbook answers. We value diverse perspectives and hire for collaboration the best systems here are built by teams not individuals.

- 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

- Bachelors 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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