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You'll operate with significant autonomy, influence architecture decisions across teams, and raise the technical bar for how engineering teams build on shared storage infrastructure.ResponsibilitiesLead design and implementation of high-impact SRS platform capabilities: event platform CDC integration (Kafka), schema automation, Structured Record Access API, fleet management toolingSet technical direction for one or more SRS sub-areas: architecture standards, design reviews, raising the bar on how the team buildsContinuously assess SRS cloud platform needs at scale, identify significant risks and gaps, and drive the roadmap to close themOwn and improve fleet-wide operations: capacity management, monitoring and alerting, query tuning, load optimization, and data replication for reporting workloadsCreate and institutionalize best practices and health models for the database fleet; use observability tooling and AWS automation to enforce standards consistently across hundreds of managed databasesBuild a high-impact network of storage champions across engineering groups, consult directly with product teams and group leads on storage readiness and risk, and select training opportunities that raise engineering capability division-wideOwn reliability for what you build: monitoring, runbooks, on-call response, post-incident learningPartner with SRS area leadership across managed database platform, DevEx, and data warehousing to sequence work and make cross-team tradeoffsDrive migration and schema lifecycle initiatives across the fleet, coordinating with product teams, managing rollout risk, validating rollback coverageMentor P2/P3 engineers; conduct design and code reviews with real feedbackRepresent SRS technical requirements in cross-org forums: architecture review, group leadershipProvide tactical leadership during production emergenciesMinimum Qualifications6+ years of software engineering in a platform, infrastructure, or data engineering context5+ years of Kubernetes architecture at scale7+ years of Terraform experience7+ years of experience with cloud data technologiesDeep Postgres or DynamoDB experience at scale: fleet-level operations, not application-level useDemonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end: design through productionHands-on Kafka or event streaming experience in production; bonus if you've built CDC pipelines (Postgres binlog, DynamoDB Streams, Debezium)ORM experience at the framework or platform layer: you've built or extended ORM tooling to drive semantic eventing, not just consumed itKubernetes CRD hands-on experience: designing or operating controllers/operators that manage platform resourcesStrong AWS background: IAM, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, multi-regionAble to drive technical alignment across opinionated teams; 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