Sr. Systems Development Engineer, Managed OperationsDESCRIPTION
Would you enjoy diving deep into, operating, and improving some of the largest software systems humanity has ever built? Do you constantly seek out opportunities to increase the performance, reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems? Do the challenges of enabling AWS's European Sovereign Cloud for its highly regulated and public sector customers excite you?
The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023, with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through long-term engineering projects. MO is building the best-in-class engineering and operations team that will own the day-to-day operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability, reliability, latency, performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions.
Amazon is looking for highly motivated Senior Systems Development Engineers who can balance the day-to-day operations of AWS' software systems with long-term software engineering to reduce operational toil. We need engineers who enjoy constantly learning and diving deep into the wide range of systems and technologies that make up one of the world's largest cloud providers.
A day in the life
You'll roughly spend 50% of your time operating production systems and 50% making long-term improvements to the reliability, availability, and performance of those software systems.
An example week could look like: Monday morning you root caused why some deployments recently failed, and in the afternoon, you made fixes for those bugs. Tuesday you realized there's actually a common thread to those bug fixes yesterday, and designed a solution to that class of problem, seeking feedback from your team. On Wednesday you investigated a Service Level Objective (SLO) that recently became less than useful. You dove deep, talked with the partner team, and found out the thresholds no-longer makes sense, so you updated their infrastructure as code (IaC) to fix it. Then on Thursday and Friday you were developing software with your team on a system you designed which safely replaces the fleets in your team's care with a more optimal hardware type, increasing the performance whilst decreasing its carbon emissions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience in software development or related field
- Experience operating and troubleshooting reliable, scalable software systems
- Proficient in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Typescript, Python, or Ruby
- Able to troubleshoot at all levels, from network to operating systems to software applications
- Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Proficient in operating 24x7 high-availability, distributed software applications
- Experience leading strategic team efforts requiring work from multiple team members
- Experience performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization as well as monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)
- Strong understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, load shedding)
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code, (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar) and operating services in AWS as well as experience scripting operating system tasks in Bash, Python, etc.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
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