Sr. Systems Development Engineer, Managed Operations
DESCRIPTION
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.
Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union.
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS.
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.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS?
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
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.
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