Come change the way the world sees the Cloud!The CloudWatch Logs team builds and manages some of the largest logging in the world. CloudWatch Logs allows AWS users to ingest their application and AWS logs in a highly scalable, durable, and reliable service for enterprise scale; find and analyze the right log to solve operational problems; generate metrics and alarms from their log events; or send log to other downstream .On the Logs team you’ll get to build critical monitoring services that impact every single AWS customer, both internally and externally – there’s not many teams' that can say that!This is a full-stack development position, leaning towards back-end work. CloudWatch Logs enables customers to explore, study, and visualize their logs so they can troubleshoot operational problems quickly and easily. It scales with log volume and query complexity giving answers in seconds. In addition, customers can publish log-based metrics, create alarms, and correlate logs and metrics together in CloudWatch Dashboards for complete operational visibility. We are building new monitoring and observability services and are shaping the future for the next generation of Logs Insights and advanced analytics that help customers reduce their mean-time-to-resolution. Energizing and Interesting Technical Problems We are looking for a software development engineer who thrives on creative problem solving and enjoys the opportunity to build and operate mission critical, multi-tenant services at massive scale. An ideal candidate dives into problems to invent simple and elegant solutions. You care deeply about customer experience and focus on building performant that offer easy-to-use interfaces to customers. You are constantly looking for ways to make the service you own better. You have great communication skills and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment with diverse team members. Utility Computing (UC)AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.Key job responsibilitiesA successful Software Development Engineer II in our team will design and deliver technologysolutions which solve difficult business problems. They identify and solve ambiguous problems, architectural deficiencies, or areas where the team’s systems hinder the innovation of other teams, and are learning to do this for other teams in the organization. They work autonomously, but may seek direction at times from peers and their manager. They consider the legacy of the systems they build with the team and how they will scale and evolve over time. They consistently demonstrate operational excellence in all facets of their work. They deeply understand the team’s systems and can thoroughly diagnose problems in all aspects of operations, including hardware, software, and operating environments. They are an active reviewer of the team’s technology solutions and operations. They are able to train new teammates, helping them understand the team’s customers, systems, and processes. They recognize discordant views and take part in a constructive dialogue to resolve them. They participate in hiring and developing others, and effectively mentor others on the team or on teams within your organization.About the teamWe are a team in CloudWatch Logs. More specifically, our team owns the lifecycle and storage management of several Exabytes of customer's Log data, and our services run their tasks in a daily basis. Additionally, we are working to add features to answer our Customer's requests and delight them improving latency and reliability of our services. For instance, our team shipped these public facing features in the past year (PutAccountPolicy, Account Level DataProtection, Account Level SubscriptionFilters). As you can imagine, there are scaling problems when you deal with Exabytes of information that are sometimes hard to predict. We tackle these on our day-to-day operations and strive to being able to predict and fix them before they happen. We are also focusing on improving our deployment capabilities, so we can deliver features even faster.About AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Diverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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. Work/Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
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