Principal Software Engineer - RDS Fleet Orchestration

Amazon Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the RDS Platform to own the technical vision and architecture for fleet update delivery at massive scale.

You will drive innovation in patching orchestration, scheduling, deployment pipelines, and fleet lifecycle management, mentoring engineers and shaping cross-team architectural decisions across the software delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience with AWS technologies.
• Experience leading engineering teams as a mentor or tech lead.
• Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps.
• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience with database internals, managed database services, or infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect fleet update systems that deliver minimal-downtime software updates to millions of database instances across multiple engines, regions, and availability zones.
• Drive cross-cutting technical strategy across scheduling, orchestration, deployment, and customer experience, ensuring architectural coherence across multiple teams.
• Design and deliver highly scalable distributed systems with demanding availability, latency, and throughput requirements.
• Innovate on approaches to reduce update latency and customer impact through intelligent scheduling, automated safety mechanisms, and progressive rollout strategies.
• Raise the engineering bar across the organization through mentorship, operational excellence, design patterns, and architecture reviews.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate customer pain points into technical strategy, balancing long-term platform investments with near-term delivery.
• Influence the broader AWS organization on fleet management, lifecycle automation, and software delivery best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

AWS technologies

Mentor / tech lead

Roadmaps & delivery

Large-scale systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the RDS Platform to own the technical vision and architecture for fleet update delivery at massive scale.

You will drive innovation in patching orchestration, scheduling, deployment pipelines, and fleet lifecycle management, mentoring engineers and shaping cross-team architectural decisions across the software delivery lifecycle.