Key job responsibilities
Design, implement, and ship features and fixes across the DMS control plane — provisioning and lifecycle management of replication instances, replication task orchestration, host management, and the APIs that customers and internal systems use to control migrations.
Own the deployment and release systems that keep a large global fleet reliable and continuously up to date, including deployment pipelines, OS patching, and safe fleet-rollout mechanisms.
Deliver security and compliance improvements that protect customer data and keep the service secure.
Drive operational excellence: design alarms, monitors, and automated safeguards, and build the tooling that shortens time to recovery.
Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and release management for our deployment cadence.
Participate in an on-call rotation, triaging production incidents and driving them to resolution.
A day in the life
Your morning starts with an alarm: a deployment to one region has stalled partway through the fleet. You trace it to a race condition in a deployment workflow, ship a fix, and get the rollout moving again.
By midday, you're designing automation that provisions, patches, and safely rolls out changes across every region. You're thinking about multi-region safety, failure isolation, and making complex infrastructure invisible to its users.
After lunch, you dig into a recurring failure that's been quietly generating operational tickets for weeks. You find the root cause — not just the symptom — fix it structurally, and close out an entire class of issues, using and helping improve AI-powered engineering tools that accelerate defect detection, code review, and incident resolution.
What makes this role different: you own the control systems that keep a large global fleet of database migrations reliable and secure — you build it, you run it, and you make it better every release.
About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop their engineering expertise so they feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
The DMS Platform team owns the control plane and the deployment, host-management, and operational systems behind it. We take ownership of a complex, high-scale system and make it better every release, so that safe and reliable deployments are the default. We leverage AI extensively: from autonomous bug-fixing to an on-call agent that cuts troubleshooting time dramatically.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3+ 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
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USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
