CloudWatch is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Engineer for the CloudWatch organisation, you will lead the design and architecture of highly available, massively scaled systems used by millions of users worldwide and spanning multiple services and teams. You will shape the technical strategy and roadmap for the services you and your team own, making and documenting the key architectural decisions and tradeoffs, and you will stay hands-on — 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 raise the engineering bar across the team through code and design reviews, coding standards, and operational excellence, and help expand our services across all AWS Regions. When issues arise, you will dive deep to understand the root cause and drive fixes that prevent them recurring. Above all, you will mentor and develop the engineers around you, growing the technical capability of the team, and partner with product and other engineering teams to break ambiguous problems down into deliverable workstreams. You will champion the adoption of GenAI and AI-powered development tools across the team, raising engineering productivity while staying current with emerging technologies.
About the team
Our team owns telemetry collection for CloudWatch, building and operating the agents that gather metrics, logs, and traces at AWS scale.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience in professional, non-internship software development
Experience in development in the last 3 years
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
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
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