Senior SDE – AWS CloudWatch Logs & Observability Analytics

Amazon Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for CloudWatch Logs. You will guide the design of high-scale distributed systems and drive architecture decisions that shape how our services scale and evolve.

You will mentor engineers through reviews and coaching, identify high-leverage problems, and partner with senior leadership to translate business priorities into concrete technical commitments, while driving architectural-level operational

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for major areas of CloudWatch Logs, and drive alignment on it with tech leads, PMs, and leadership.
• Lead the design of complex, high-scale distributed systems, making the architecture decisions that define how our services scale and evolve.
• Mentor and grow engineers across the team — through design reviews, code reviews, and hands‑on technical coaching — raising the collective bar.
• Identify the highest-leverage problems and systemic improvements, then rally the team around solving them.
• Partner with senior leadership to turn business and customer priorities into concrete technical strategy and commitments.
• Drive operational excellence at the architectural level, designing out whole classes of recurring issues rather than patching them.

Job description

Amazon is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for CloudWatch Logs. You will guide the design of high-scale distributed systems and drive architecture decisions that shape how our services scale and evolve.

You will mentor engineers through reviews and coaching, identify high-leverage problems, and partner with senior leadership to translate business priorities into concrete technical commitments, while driving architectural-level operational