Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS CloudWatch

Do you want to deliver and scale the services that make it easier for millions

of developers and DevOps engineers all over the world to monitor and

characterize the performance and behavior of their applications running on AWS?

AWS Application Performance Monitoring Services automatically instrument

customer applications on AWS so that customers can monitor their application

health and track application performance against business objectives. It

provides customers with a unified, application-centric view of applications,

services, and dependencies, and helps customers monitor and triage application

health. It enables developers and DevOps engineers to analyze the behavior of

their distributed applications running on server or server-less architectures,

detect anomaly via advanced analytics technology, determine the root cause of

the performance bottlenecks or increase in error/fault/throttle rates and take

corrective actions. It actively integrates with Open Source technology not only

to create an easy on-boarding experience but weave all telemetry types of data

together, including trace, metrics and logs. Our mission is to deliver and scale

Application Performance Monitoring to very large numbers of customers running at

extremely high request rates, and perform sophisticated analysis in near

real-time.

The AWS Application Performance Monitoring team is looking for talented software

developers who are passionate about distributed system challenges at scale, want

to work on some of the best technologies that AWS has to offer, and have a

consistent routine of dogfooding in production.

As part of the team, you will be responsible for:

* Building a solution based on Open Telemetry of automatically instrumenting

customer applications, collecting comprehensive telemetry data, and publishing

them into AWS managed monitoring services.

* Partnering with multiple teams within AWS to build solutions that add value to

internal engineers and their customers.

* Providing technical leadership to the engineering team and contributing to the

product development lifecycle.

Key job responsibilities

Amazon CloudWatch already operates at unprecedented scale, while upholding

performance and durability requirements that our customers care about.

* You will work on / lead projects that drive software of large-scale control

and planes with Amazon proprietary technologies.

* You’ll have the unique opportunity to shape the future of our tracing and APM

services and positively affect our customers. It means improve the performance

of our service in distributed area and deliver features to customers to better

use our product.

* As part of the broader AWS organization, you will have the opportunity to

influence the broader cloud strategy for Amazon.

About the team

About Us

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our

culture of inclusion. We have ten employee- led affinity groups, reaching 40,000

employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings,

and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on

Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s

culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which

remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn

trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn’t about how many hours

you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings

energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between

your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and

fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find

your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

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. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring

and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and

strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into

a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the

future. Basic

Qualifications

• - 5+ years of non-internship professional software
• development experience
• - 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• experience
• - 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and
• scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• - Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team Preferred

Qualifications

• - 5+ 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
• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
• of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
• Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
• customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
• adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
• interview or onboarding process, please visit
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• The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package
• will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final
• compensation will be determined based on factors including experience,
• qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits
• including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &
• AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health
• Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
• Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
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• USA, WA, Bellevue - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually