Software Development Engineer, CloudWatch Application Observability

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
- designing building and operating services
- influencing the product roadmap
- mentoring and guiding junior engineers
- being a force multiplier in the team in enhancing team productivity

- 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 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
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors 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 Companys 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 CA Santa Clara - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually