3 days ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year technical vision and architecture for the CloudWatch metrics platform across query execution, storage, retention, and ingestion.
- Lead technical direction and delivery across multiple teams for a globally available 24x7 metrics service.
- Make architectural decisions involving correctness, availability, performance, cost, durability, and scale.
- Drive intelligent adaptive ingestion and establish CloudWatch as a default OpenTelemetry metrics foundation across Amazon.
- Translate customer needs into architecture and influence the roadmap for AWS customers, Amazon teams, and CloudWatch Omni experiences.
- Raise engineering quality through design and code reviews, operational excellence, production deep dives, and durable fixes.
- Mentor senior engineers and represent CloudWatch metrics in AWS architecture forums and the OpenTelemetry/Prometheus community.
Requirements
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 10+ years designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems, including reliability, scaling, and design patterns.
- Relevant experience with high-performance storage, time-series or metrics systems, query engines, or database internals.
- Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams and delivering major improvements to systems at scale.
- Deep familiarity with time-series data, metrics systems, and the Prometheus and OpenTelemetry ecosystems.
- Experience with S3-based storage, stream processing such as Kinesis or Kafka, and columnar formats such as Parquet.
- Experience with PromQL or other time-series query languages, query planning, storage compaction, and large-scale performance optimization.
- Systems programming experience in Rust, Java, C++, or a similar language.
- Experience influencing architecture across organizations and mentoring senior engineers.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.