Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS CloudWatch, AWS 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

CloudWatch Logs is one of the highest-scale logging services at AWS, trusted by millions of customers to reliably capture, store, and protect their operational and security logs. We operate large, multi-region distributed systems handling an enormous volume of data every day.

Key job 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.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying