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Software Development Manager, Cloudwatch Logs

Amazon· Software Development
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Bellevue, WA$184.9k - $250.2kFull-timePosted 2d ago

About the role

Lead a team at the core of CloudWatch Logs, owning technical strategy, roadmap, and architectural decisions to improve scale, durability, and performance. Partner across CloudWatch, AWS Observability, and wider AWS, while delivering features that enable customers to derive value from log data. Combine people leadership with technical depth to hire, mentor, and drive operational excellence and end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team that owns critical systems within CloudWatch Logs.
  • Define the team roadmap and drive a multi-year technical strategy that improves scale, reliability, and customer experience.
  • Drive architectural decisions with senior and principal engineers, evaluating tradeoffs across performance, cost, durability, and operational complexity.
  • Partner with product management, partner service teams, and customers to translate requirements into delivery plans that balance innovation with operational risk.
  • Own operational excellence for the team's systems, including deployment safety, metrics, on-call health, and availability targets for a service operating at massive scale.
  • Build mechanisms that scale team operations while maintaining end-to-end ownership — including operational reviews, design reviews, and engineering best practices.
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers. Build a culture of ownership, inclusion, and technical depth.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of engineering team management experience
  • 8+ years of engineering experience
  • 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
  • 3+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
  • 3+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
  • 3+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
  • 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
  • 8+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
  • Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Skills

Required:Team leadershipSoftware architectureDistributed systemsJava/C#/C++Service-oriented architecture

Benefits

  • Amazon benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parential leave
  • sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) included in package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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