Sr. Software Development Engineer, Alameda Observability

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 modernize 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.

Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams projects and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. Youll bring a passion for innovation data search analytics and distributed systems. Youll also:
- 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.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture youll create metrics implement automation and other improvements and resolve the root cause of software defects. Youll also:
- 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 youre always working on the most important stuff.

- 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

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN ON Toronto - 150700.00 - 251700.00 CAD annually