Description

Join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Synthetics Monitoring and Observability team.

As a part of the AWS Synthetics Monitoring and Observability, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the health and reliability of services and websites through external monitoring. Our vision is to preemptively monitor applications and endpoints to detect customer impact before customers do. By allowing customers to define scripted actions for monitoring their customer journey's for their applications and services, AWS Synthetics Monitoring and Observability empowers businesses of all sizes.

We're experiencing rapid growth driven by customer demand and feedback, leading to continuous enhancements and innovations. As a Developer on our team, you'll tackle complex challenges, design solutions, and implement features at cloud scale using cutting-edge technologies. You'll have the opportunity to build new services from the ground up and scale existing ones, all while collaborating with a highly skilled team and advancing your career.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer, your primary role will be to maintain a high standard of design and delivery of software engineering solutions for customers through sound architecture, design, and implementing software solutions for Synthetics monitoring, including highly consistent canary scheduling, fast and lightweight canary runtimes, and canary run triage and analysis. You will write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in languages such as Java, NodeJS, or Python leveraging AWS serverless and managed services like Lambda, EC2, APIGateway, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, and new technologies. During delivery of customer features and improvements you will conduct thorough testing, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure the reliability and accuracy of Synthetics monitoring services. Operationally you will own building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary for canary monitoring, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance under varying workloads.

To deliver on behalf of customers you will continuously collaborate with stakeholders to understand customer requirements and translate them into actionable features and enhancements. You will be empowered to evaluate and enhance monitoring capabilities based on feedback, industry best practices, and emerging technologies.

A day in the life

You'll start by collaborating with the team to prioritize tasks and discuss ongoing projects. Throughout the day, you'll design and develop software solutions to enhance the monitoring capabilities of AWS CloudWatch Synthetics. This could involve writing code to improve canary scheduling and monitoring services, conducting quality testing, and implementing customer-driven features. You'll engage in problem-solving sessions, troubleshoot issues, and provide support to ensure the reliability of monitoring services. Constant communication with team members and stakeholders ensures alignment and progress towards our mission of empowering customers with proactive monitoring tools.

About the team

The AWS Synthetics Monitoring and Observability team is dedicated to providing customers with advanced tools for monitoring the health and performance of their applications. Our mission is to empower customers to proactively monitor their applications, ensuring performance and reliability. We develop innovative solutions that enable customers to define customer journeys for monitoring, helping them to identify issues before they impact end users.

Working with us means being part of a talented team focused on customer success. We value collaboration, innovation, and pursuit of excellence. Join us as we continue to revolutionize the way businesses monitor their applications in the cloud.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bellevue, WA, USA

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.