Software Development Engineer, CloudWatch, Amazon Intelligent OperationsCome and build the future with us as we change the way the world sees the Cloud!
CloudWatch is the observability platform of AWS, built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers. CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing a unified view of AWS resources, applications and services that run on AWS, and on-premises servers. Customers use CloudWatch to set high resolution alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to optimize their applications, and ensure they are running smoothly. The CloudWatch team in Dublin is growing and we are looking for exceptional software development engineers to create the next generation CloudWatch experience.
CloudWatch is one of the largest real-time data platforms in the world, processing more than 13 quadrillion metric observations per month! This requires teams in CloudWatch to innovate at an unprecedented scale. In CloudWatch we love giving customers what they want: high quality, highly usable, highly available services. It's humbling and energizing to work with excellent, dedicated engineers to build and deliver world-leading service monitoring solutions at AWS scale.
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
As a Software Development Engineer for the CloudWatch organisation, you will be responsible for:
Work in an agile team to design, build and maintain highly available and massively scaled systems used by millions of users worldwide.Design and implement complex software with the highest quality for the services you and your team own.Help expand our services across all AWS Regions.Dive deep on operational issues to understand root cause and apply fixes to avoid repetition of events.Mentor junior engineers.
A day in the life
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.
On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one day every two weeks. We don't like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems 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.
About the team
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.
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 develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Minimum Requirements
Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.Experience programming with at least one software programming language.Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
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