Senior Software Development Engineer - Amazon - AWS CloudWatch Amazon
Arlington, VA

Job Description

Do you like helping U.S. Intelligence Community and Defense agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve unique technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies and become a core part of the largest cloud infrastructure on the planet? Amazon CloudWatch is seeking talented software developers to join our teams either in Herndon, VA. or Seattle, WA.

Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and applications that run on AWS, giving customers actionable visibility into the health of their applications and services. Today we run one of the largest time-series data stores on the planet and teams in CloudWatch solve problems of massive metric ingestion, distributed systems/cloud computing, data visualization, log processing and analytics, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics. Our services are the "eyes and ears" for customers everywhere, both inside Amazon along with AWS customers across the world.

CloudWatch is looking for self-driven, motivated engineers to help us build the future of this growing and critical AWS service. As part of the CloudWatch, you will have an opportunity to:

* Be part of a rapidly growing team, helping to shape the future direction of our service
* Interact and work with teams across all parts of Amazon (we provide monitoring for them too!)
* Work with and learn from some of the smartest engineers in the industry
* Develop software to solve some of the most challenging problems that come with operating at massive scale
* See your innovations in use by actual customers around the world and across Amazon

If you're looking for a role that will provide you with opportunities to help transform how our customers monitor their services, then we need to talk.

This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.

By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.