Software Development Engineer Lambda, AWS Lambda Control Plane

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets customers run code without provisioning or managing servers. As part of the AWS Lambda team in Dublin youll work on one of the fastest-growing services in AWS processing trillions of invocations monthly for millions of customers worldwide.

Were seeking an experienced Software Developer to join our Dublin-based team working on AWS Lambda Control Plane Team. AWS Lambda Control Plane is responsible for the customer-facing API surface and resource lifecycle management for one of AWSs highest-scale services. The organization owns three charters:

CP Platform Frontend API hosting for public-facing APIs covering authentication quotas tags resource policies CloudTrail and federated request routing
Function Control Plane (FCP) CRUD APIs for Lambda Functions Versions and Aliases; CloudFormation integration; and resource lifecycle management
Function Lifecycle Management Function activation workflows metadata propagation to data plane (SanDOS) and resource state management
We operate at massive scale across all AWS regions and partitions with a strong emphasis on availability security and operational excellence.

Were looking for a Software Development Engineer to design build and operate distributed systems that power AWS Lambdas control plane. Youll work on customer-facing APIs asynchronous lifecycle workflows and metadata propagation systems that serve millions of Lambda functions globally. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex challenges at scale and deliver best in class serverless customer experience.


About the team
As a team we are dedicated to making new team members feel welcome and included. We strive to grow each other through task assignments mentorship and trainings. As an Amazonian youll work with some of the most talented engineers in our industry. We believe in attracting developing and retaining talent from diverse backgrounds. We value different perspectives and looking for team players who are working effectively with teams of diverse peers.

- 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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