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Description

Are you interested in building and influencing open source monitoring and observability? Would you like to use your engineering background to support best-in-class data cloud and large-scale distributed systems to enable big data processing in the cloud? We're looking for talented and driven individuals to join us.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is looking for software engineers that want to help us grow our newly launched monitoring and alerting service. Customers rely on our service to continuously ingest, store, alert, and query large amounts of data. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is part of the AWS open-source observability solutions that enable customers to monitor, analyze, and visualize the performance of their workloads.

Our team tackles some of the hardest scalability, performance, and distributed computing challenges in the world. We process billions of data points per second and manage artifacts through the latest in technologies (DynamoDB, Memcached, Lambda, etc.). We process time series data and are growing our service to accommodate the on demand and low latency ingest, storage, and query of customer data. You’ll have the chance to contribute to open source and run a fully managed scalable service at AWS, while working with a group of incredibly smart, friendly, and passionate people.

AWS has a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History”. On a typical day, our software engineers might deep dive to root cause a customer issue, release the latest new feature, consult with the top engineers at Amazon, or discuss radical new approaches to building and operating at scale. You'll be surrounded by people who are incredibly smart, passionate about observability, and believe that we are only scratching the surface of what AWS can really do to help developers, SREs, and business owners everywhere.

SDE positions within the team is responsible to build fully managed, multi-tenant Prometheus service.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test new product features using Go, Kotlin, TypeScript, and leveraging AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, S3, DynamoDB, EKS, ECS, and many more

• Operate and maintain a globally available 24x7 service that our customers rely on to monitor the health of their systems

• Contribute to open source software, especially for projects in the observability space, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, Thanos, and OpenTelemetry

• Help our customers by solving their immediate operational problems, and influencing our roadmap to address their long-term needs

• Collaborate with other members to improve our team’s software best practices (e.g., security, quality, operational excellence, etc)

• Participate in hiring and mentoring of new team members

A day in the life

On a typical day, our software engineers might deep dive to root cause a customer issue, release the latest new feature, consult with the top engineers at Amazon, or discuss radical new approaches to building and operating at . You'll be surrounded by people who are incredibly smart, passionate about observability, and believe that we are only scratching the surface of what can really do to help developers, SREs, and business owners everywhere.

About the team

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 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a 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

We are passionate and intentional about growing the careers of our team members. From the start, we pair you up with a buddy to help you navigate the first few months, and tailor an onboarding plan to guide you through your journey to becoming a fully contributing member our team. Your continuous development benefits from one-on-one mentorship from senior software engineers, access to and feedback from principal engineers, and a personalized career development plan with your manager. Our team is made up of engineers with varied experiences that celebrate knowledge sharing and constructive feedback.

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 $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.