Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer for the CloudWatch organisation, you will work in an agile team to design, build and maintain highly available, massively scaled systems used by millions of users worldwide. You will design and implement complex software to the highest quality for the services you and your team own, building our telemetry collection agents in Rust and Go and engaging with the upstream open-source communities, such as OpenTelemetry, that our software is built on and contributes to.
You will help expand our services across all AWS Regions, and when issues arise you will dive deep to understand the root cause and apply fixes that prevent them recurring. You will leverage GenAI and AI-powered development tools to enhance your productivity while staying current with emerging technologies, and you will also mentor junior engineers, helping grow the technical capability of the team.
A day in the life
On a typical day you might root-cause a collection issue affecting a fleet of hosts, ship a new feature in one of our agents, take a change upstream to OpenTelemetry, or design a solution to a performance or footprint problem you have never seen before. You translate customer and internal requirements into designs, weigh the tradeoffs, and break the work into incremental deliverables your team can ship. A strong community of senior and principal engineers gives direct feedback and pushes your thinking. You are surrounded by people who are passionate about observability and who believe there is still a lot of ground to cover in helping developers, SREs, and operators understand their systems.
About the team
We own telemetry collection for CloudWatch: the agents that run on millions of hosts and containers across AWS and gather the metrics, logs, and traces that everything else in CloudWatch is built on. Our software is written in Rust and Go and built on OpenTelemetry, and we contribute back to those open-source communities. We are a growing team in Dublin, and our mission is to give every AWS customer a reliable, low-overhead way to collect the telemetry their systems produce.
We invest in growing our engineers from day one. You will be paired with a buddy, work closely with senior and principal engineers.
Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Strong programming skills in at least two of the following: Rust, Go, Java, C++, Python
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Open-source enthusiasm and contributions (e.g. a GitHub portfolio, or contributions to projects such as OpenTelemetry)
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