AWS Database SRE Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

As part of Platform Services you and the team will be charged with developing and building software that keeps our AWS database platforms reliable at scale and enabling our client teams. Key responsibilities of the AWS Database SRE Engineer are:

· Design, build and maintain software and automation that keep our AWS database fleet reliable, observable and self-healing.

· Write production-grade code in Python and Java  to remove manual toil, codify operational knowledge and improve mean time to recovery.

· Own SLOs, error budgets and the reliability roadmap for managed database platforms such as RDS, Aurora and DynamoDB.

· Build the monitoring, alerting and diagnostics that give engineering and support clear insight into platform health.

· Partner with product engineering and Site Reliability leaders to feed reliability and supportability requirements back into the product.

· Lead resolution of the most challenging database and infrastructure issues, then engineer

 

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

• Hands-on experience with AWS, especially managed database services such as RDS, Aurora or DynamoDB

• A software engineering mindset applied to reliability: you solve operational problems with code rather than manual effort

• Understanding of AI and ML concepts, with the ability to analyse AI use cases and build solutions that incorporate AI as part of the design

• Strong software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages: Python, Java, Go, C++

• Experience designing, building and running resilient services, with an understanding of SLOs, error budgets and on-call

• Understanding of cloud, virtualization, APIs, and modern software design

• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins

• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Splunk, DynaTrace, etc.

• Experience building fullstack solutions on cloud platforms

• Understanding of agile and lean philosophies, and the ability to collaborate with different roles to achieve common goals

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to management teams.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our  FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.