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Software Development Engineer, CloudWatch Application Observability

Amazon Santa Clara, California, United States


No Relocation

Posted: August 20, 2026

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Description
  • 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,
Description
  • 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
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 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 - 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