Description As a part of the AWS CloudWatch Synthetics Monitoring and Observability team, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the health and reliability of services and web applications through external monitoring. Our vision is to provide our customers with preemptive full-stack monitoring to detect user-impact before their users do. We provide customers with automation tools to define scripted-actions to monitor their applications, and we provide schedulers for millions of automation runs. We empower customers to emulate users' journeys through their application and services. AWS CloudWatch Synthetics empowers businesses of all sizes. We’re looking for exceptional engineers and problem solvers who are passionate about delivering awesome customer-facing products, and building solutions that solves critical business needs, at AWS scale. As an experienced developer on our team, you will tackle complex challenges, and work with a highly skilled team to deliver solutions through working backwards from real-world problems. You will work across the entire distribute service stack, and build on top of native AWS solutions. You will have opportunities to influence the technical direction of the team. You will design, build, and deliver new features and services from the ground up, and scale them while advancing your career. 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. About AWS Amazon 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 Experiences AWS 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. 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Key job responsibilities As an experienced 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, Go, NodeJS, or Python leveraging AWS serverless and managed services like ECS, 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. 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 - Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence 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. Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/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.