Senior Software Engineer, Capacity & Efficiency

📋 Description

• Build forecast-driven capacity planning for the storage and database fleet, turning traffic
• Design and build a capacity planner for Aurora that sets reader counts and writer instance sizes
• Rightsize databases, caches, and block storage (RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, EBS) on instance size
• Own S3 efficiency at scale: storage class and Intelligent-Tiering strategy, lifecycle and retention
• Take every recommendation to closed-loop automation with guardrails, progressive rollout, and
• Measure outcomes in cost and reliability (savings against baseline, forecast error, utilization

🎯 Requirements

• Deep hands-on experience operating AWS storage and databases at scale, especially Aurora or RDS
• Capacity planning and forecasting experience: modeling time-series demand, load testing, and
• A track record of rightsizing infrastructure from utilization data (CPU, memory, IOPS, throughput
• Strong Python or Go engineering, with experience building automation that safely modifies
• Familiarity with AWS storage and database pricing (S3 storage classes and requests, Aurora
• Experience with bursty, event-driven workloads (trading, payments, ticketing) or with Spark

🎁 Benefits

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
• Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity
• Best-in-class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with
• Lifestyle wallet — a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
• Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!