Sr. Software Development Engineer, Alameda Observability
About The Position
Alameda is the next generation control plane as a service operating more than 14 AWS Services. Just like EC2, EBS, and RDS modernized compute, storage and databases, Alameda provides a modernized AWS scaled and secured building blocks (API, Workflows, Telemetry...) that lets developers focus on writing core business value. Alameda removes the undifferentiated lift of writing services, while simultaneously providing secure by default, AWS scaled runtime services. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to lead the Alameda Observability team and innovate new observability infrastructure powering RDS - a massive distributed system architecture supporting one of the largest managed database fleets on the planet. This space is on an accelerated high-growth trajectory with opportunities to rethink how traditional observability services were built and reimagine them as cloud-native from the ground up. The work requires solving the hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems and networking at massive scale, with significant bottom-line impact on the RDS business and competitive position. A successful candidate will have the experience and skill to set a strategic technical vision, provide hands-on guidance to the team, innovate on developer experience, and drive operational efficiency.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Nice To Haves
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Responsibilities
- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
- Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
- Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
- Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
- Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
- Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- paid time off
- other resources to improve health and well-being
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
