SDE, CloudWatch Logs, Amazon Monitoring and Observability

Come change the way the world sees the Cloud!
The CloudWatch Logs team builds and manages some of the largest logging in the world. CloudWatch Logs allows AWS users to ingest their application and AWS logs in a highly scalable, durable, and reliable service for enterprise scale; find and analyze the right log to solve operational problems; generate metrics and alarms from their log events; or send log to other downstream .
On the Logs team you’ll get to build critical monitoring services that impact every single AWS customer, both internally and externally – there’s not many teams' that can say that!
This is a full-stack development position, leaning towards back-end work.

CloudWatch Logs enables customers to explore, study, and visualize their logs so they can troubleshoot operational problems quickly and easily. It scales with log volume and query complexity giving answers in seconds. In addition, customers can publish log-based metrics, create alarms, and correlate logs and metrics together in CloudWatch Dashboards for complete operational visibility. We are building new monitoring and observability services and are shaping the future for the next generation of Logs Insights and advanced analytics that help customers reduce their mean-time-to-resolution.

Energizing and Interesting Technical Problems
We are looking for a software development engineer who thrives on creative problem solving and enjoys the opportunity to build and operate mission critical, multi-tenant services at massive scale. An ideal candidate dives into problems to invent simple and elegant solutions. You care deeply about customer experience and focus on building performant that offer easy-to-use interfaces to customers. You are constantly looking for ways to make the service you own better. You have great communication skills and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment with diverse team members.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re committed to the growth and of every member of CloudWatch Logs Insights. CloudWatch Log Insights is a growth environment - we’re hiring and scaling rapidly to meet the needs of our customers. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your scope of influence naturally as we scale.

Inclusive Team Culture
Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes, we do get to build a really cool service, but we also think a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we try to cultivate every day. We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building.


Key job responsibilities
A successful Software Development Engineer II in our team will design and deliver technology
solutions which solve difficult business problems. They identify and solve ambiguous problems, architectural deficiencies, or areas where the team’s systems hinder the innovation of other teams, and are learning to do this for other teams in the organization. They work autonomously, but may seek direction at times from peers and their manager. They consider the legacy of the systems they build with the team and how they will scale and evolve over time. They consistently demonstrate operational excellence in all facets of their work. They deeply understand the team’s systems and can thoroughly diagnose problems in all aspects of operations, including hardware, software, and operating environments. They are an active reviewer of the team’s technology solutions and operations. They are able to train new teammates, helping them understand the team’s customers, systems, and processes. They recognize discordant views and take part in a constructive dialogue to resolve them. They participate in hiring and developing others, and effectively mentor others on the team or on teams within your organization.

About the team
We are a team in CloudWatch Logs. More specifically, our team owns the lifecycle and storage management of several Exabytes of customer's Log data, and our services run their tasks in a daily basis. Additionally, we are working to add features to answer our Customer's requests and delight them improving latency and reliability of our services. For instance, our team shipped these public facing features in the past year (PutAccountPolicy, Account Level DataProtection, Account Level SubscriptionFilters). As you can imagine, there are scaling problems when you deal with Exabytes of information that are sometimes hard to predict. We tackle these on our day-to-day operations and strive to being able to predict and fix them before they happen. We are also focusing on improving our deployment capabilities, so we can deliver features even faster.