The mission of the CloudWatch Application Observability is to delight our customers and help them operate their applications by providing them a highly available, scalable and secure service that instruments, observes and monitors their applications and AI agents. At a high level, the team builds products that are curated solutions allowing customers to operate their applications. We have an exciting charter for 2026 and beyond to delight our customers and build observability solutions for their traditional and agentic workloads.
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 of our product, be a technical leader and force-multiplier in the team. You will have the unique opportunity to build, influence, and shape new AWS services.
Our ideal candidate is:
* Passionate about building the best customer experience and user interfaces
* Goal-oriented and results-driven; thrives in a culture of ownership, delivery, and bias for action
*. Enthusiastic about working on real-world challenges, and can deliver on ambiguous problems while handling real-world constraints.
*. Advocate for industry best-practices to produce reliable, and dependable code
*. Enjoys working in fast-paced environments, and communicates well with a cross-disciplinary team
Key job responsibilities
The key responsibilities for this candidate include
1. designing, building and operating services
2. influencing the product roadmap
3. mentoring and guiding junior engineers
4. being a force multiplier in the team in enhancing team productivity
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- Bachelor\'s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ 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.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company?s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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. Learn more about our benefits at .
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
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