Software Development Engineer, CloudWatch Application Signals

Software Development Engineer, CloudWatch Application Signals

CloudWatch Application Signals, launched during reInvent 2023, is a new AWS service in public preview. This service enables customers to automatically instrument their applications on AWS to monitor current application health and track long-term application performance against their business objectives. Application Signals provides customers with a unified, application-centric view of their applications, services, and dependencies, and helps them monitor and triage application health.

The team mission is to delight our customers in helping them operate their applications by providing them a highly available, scalable and secure service that instruments, observes and monitors their applications.

We are looking for engineers who are enthusiastic about giving customers the best experience and are passionate about solving customers’ business needs, at AWS scale.

As an experienced engineer on the team, you will work closely with the engineering staff, product managers, and UX designers across the team, as well as interact directly with customers. You will play a key role in defining the technology strategies for our product, and be a technical leader and force-multiplier in the team. You will have the unique opportunity to build, influence, and shape a new AWS service.

Our ideal candidate is:

1. Passionate about building the best customer experience and user interfaces
2. Goal-oriented and results-driven; thrives in a culture of ownership, delivery, and bias for action
3. Enthusiastic about working on real-world challenges, and can deliver on ambiguous problems while handling real-world constraints
4. An advocate for industry best practices to produce reliable and dependable code
5. Enjoys working in fast-paced environments, and communicates well with a cross-disciplinary team

Utility Computing (UC) 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.

About AWS: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

Inclusive Team Culture: Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to embrace our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. You’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language
4. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
5. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market.