Software Development Engineer, Application Performance Monitoring

Do you want to deliver and scale the services that make it easier for millions of developers and DevOps engineers all over the world to monitor and characterize the performance and behavior of their applications running on AWS?

AWS Application Performance Monitoring Services automatically instrument customer applications on AWS so that customers can monitor their application health and track application performance against business objectives.

It provides customers with a unified, application-centric view of applications, services, and dependencies, and helps customers monitor and triage application health.

It enables developers and DevOps engineers to analyze the behavior of their distributed applications running on server or server-less architectures, detect anomaly via advanced analytics technology, determine the root cause of the performance bottlenecks or increase in error / fault / throttle rates and take corrective actions.

It actively integrates with Open Source technology not only to create an easy on-boarding experience but weave all telemetry types of data together, including trace, metrics and logs.

Our mission is to deliver and scale Application Performance Monitoring to very large numbers of customers running at extremely high request rates, and perform sophisticated analysis in near real-time.

The AWS Application Performance Monitoring team is looking for talented software developers who are passionate about distributed system challenges at scale, want to work on some of the best technologies that AWS has to offer, and have a consistent routine of dogfooding in production.

As part of the team, you will be responsible for :

• Building a solution based on Open Telemetry of automatically instrumenting customer applications, collecting comprehensive telemetry data, and publishing them into AWS managed monitoring services.
• Partnering with multiple teams within AWS to build solutions that add value to internal engineers and their customers.
• Providing technical leadership to the engineering team and contributing to the product development lifecycle.

About Us

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee- led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work / Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.

We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.

We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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
• 1+ years of building complex software systems experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
30+ days ago