Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Observability Analytics
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 26, 2026. Amazon scores B on the Alion truth index.
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.
We're looking for a senior Software Development Engineer to be a technical leader on the team. You'll own our hardest distributed-systems problems end to end - setting the technical direction, driving the designs that unlock the next order of magnitude of scale, and raising the bar for how the whole team builds and operates. This is a role for someone who wants to shape where the team is going, not just execute against it.
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
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Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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USA, WA, Bellevue - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually