Software Development Engineer, CloudWatch Application Signals

About the role

The CloudWatch Application Observability team is dedicated to delighting customers by helping them operate their applications through a highly available, scalable, and secure service that instruments, observes, and monitors their applications and AI agents. We build curated solutions that enable customers to operate their applications effectively. With an exciting charter for 2026 and beyond, we aim to create observability solutions for both traditional and agentic workloads.

As an experienced engineer on this team, you will collaborate closely with engineering staff, product managers, and UX designers, as well as interact directly with customers. You will play a key role in defining the technology strategies of our product, act as a technical leader, and serve as a force-multiplier within the team. This role offers the unique opportunity to build, influence, and shape new AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate services that influence the product roadmap
• Mentor and guide junior engineers
• Enhance team productivity as a force multiplier

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of Object-Oriented Design experience
• 1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl
• 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 experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Skills

• 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 delivering solutions for 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 cross-disciplinary teams

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Pay

USA, CA, Santa Clara - $165,200.00 - $223,600.00 USD annually

Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.