Software Development Engineer, Lambda Experience

AWS Lambdas goal is nothing less than to simplify and improve the experience of computing in the cloud for every developer on the planet from startups to the largest Fortune 100 companies. Serverless computing is rapidly changing how every company thinks about building and delivering software solutions and Lambda is leading this industry wide effort.

Our Team

AWS Lambda is growing in Dublin Ireland and our goal is to continue to define the Serverless the Lambda team you will be joining a team where the entire development of the service occurs in Dublin. You will have the opportunity to impact the service roadmap in a meaningful way as the existing team team has done for recent deliverables like AWS Lambda Runtime Management Controls AWS Lambda Extensions AWS Lambda Container Support plus a host of new Language runtimes. You will own and implement specific components build highly available secure scalable distributed event-driven systems and help to define the system architecture. This is a full-stack development position on a large distributing computing platform.

What does it take to succeed in this role

You should be comfortable working in an environment dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of customers. You should be intellectually curious always looking to learn and be dedicated to turning the software developers that use Lambda to build modern applications into fans of the service. You should be somebody who aspires to make the team both productive and a fun place to work. Being excited to learn from others while bringing your own novel capabilities and perspectives.

On-Call Responsibility

This position involves on-call responsibilities every builder on Lambda is also an owner. Nobody likes to get paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are well engineered fault tolerant and meet a high quality bar before the go into production. Our customers expect nothing less. When we do get paged we work together as a team to resolve the root cause of the issue and nobody is left on their own to deal with an operational issue.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and host annual and ongoing learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.


Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future

What you should expect

If youre excited by defining how modern and future software applications are built and want to help lead from the innovative edge we guarantee that your work in our team will be ground-breaking and challenging. Were looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic empathetic curious motivated reliable and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture weve been building.

Together well deliver the next generation of industry-leading compute features and help every business from the smallest startups to the largest enterprises run their code in the cloud without the burden of infrastructure or scale (thats our job). Well shape not just our own products but contribute to the direction of AWS and the serverless industry.

Come help us change the world!

Job location is Dublin Ireland. Relocation assistance available. For more information on Amazon Web Services please visit

Lambda is part of Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.


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.

- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- 3 years of professional software development experience
- Strong programming skills in at least two of the following: Java Python Go Rust
- Deep understanding of system architecture design patterns and software engineering best practices
- Strong debugging and performance monitoring skills (benchmarking profiling flamegraphs memory management)

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience in developing and deploying serverless application using AWS services including but not limited to creating event-driven architectures implementing business logic with Lambda functions integrating Lambda with other AWS services and optimizing performance and cost efficiency of serverless based solutions.

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