Software Development Engineer, Amazon Monitoring and Observability
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 team’s that can say that!This is a full-stack development position, leaning towards back-end work.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a value on work-life balance. Most days, our entire team is co-located in the Vancouver office, but we’re also flexible when people occasionally need to work from home. We generally keep core in-office hours from 10am to 4pm. About half of us come in earlier and the other half of us stay later.
On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.
We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Key job responsibilities- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- 5+ years of industry experience.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
Key job responsibilities
BS in Computer Science or equivalent • 5+ years of industry experience. · Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.VPCE Endpoint provisioning and VPCE Endpoint Services (CWL))SysDE IIs 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.
A day in the lifeWe follow these tenets:
Automations: We create automated solutions that can be leveraged by CWLXR teams. We focus on infrastructure projects that can be automated.
Service partners: We obsess over the service teams infrastructure needs, giving time back to the service teams to focus on the business logic that serves our internal and external customers.Scalable and easy to operate: Our solutions are simple to maintain regardless of size. We provide an infrastructure platform to service teams that is as efficient and performant across thousands or tens of hosts.
Successful when the wider org is more productive: We use data and metrics to prioritize our efforts and demonstrate our improvements with metrics.- 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
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.