CloudWatch Logs SDM: Scale & Reliability Leader

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a core CloudWatch Logs engineering team.

You will own the technical strategy and roadmap for your team's charter, drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, durability, and performance, and deliver features that unlock value from log data. You will hire and develop engineers, raise the bar on design rigor and operational excellence, and build a culture of ownership and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 8+ years of engineering experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.
• 3+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience.
• 3+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience.
• 3+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience.
• 8+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team that owns critical systems within CloudWatch Logs.
• Define the team roadmap and drive a multi-year technical strategy that improves scale, reliability, and customer experience.
• Drive architectural decisions with senior and principal engineers, evaluating tradeoffs across performance, cost, durability, and operational complexity.
• Partner with product management, partner service teams, and customers to translate requirements into delivery plans that balance innovation with operational risk.
• Own operational excellence for the team's systems, including deployment safety, metrics, on-call health, and availability targets for a service operating at massive scale.
• Build mechanisms that scale team operations while maintaining end-to-end ownership- including operational reviews, design reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers. Build a culture of ownership, inclusion, and technical depth.

Skills

Engineering management

Software architecture

Java

C#

C++

Distributed systems

SOA

Leadership

Product management collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a core CloudWatch Logs engineering team.

You will own the technical strategy and roadmap for your team's charter, drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, durability, and performance, and deliver features that unlock value from log data. You will hire and develop engineers, raise the bar on design rigor and operational excellence, and build a culture of ownership and inclusion.