Principal Software Engineer, AWS CloudWatch

Come build the next generation of cloud observability with us. […] CloudWatch gives every AWS customer a single platform to send, store, and query metrics from over 70 AWS services alongside their own application telemetry, using OpenTelemetry (OTLP) and PromQL — and the same platform powers observability for […]'s internal teams and the new CloudWatch Omni experiences. As the Principal Engineer for the CloudWatch metrics platform, you will own its technical vision and architecture end to end — the distributed query engine, the tiered storage and long-term retention systems, and the ingestion and compaction pipeline — and drive its evolution for the OpenTelemetry era.

We will look to you to make high-judgment architectural trade-offs across latency, cost, durability, and scale, to set the multi-year technical strategy, and to raise the technical bar across our Dublin engineering team and the wider CloudWatch organization. <br/><br/>Key job responsibilities<br/>Set the multi-year technical vision and architecture for the CloudWatch metrics platform — query execution, tiered and long-term storage, and ingestion — and drive it across multiple teams. <br/><br/>Own the hardest design decisions on correctness, availability, performance, and cost for a globally available 24x7 service that customers rely on to monitor, alert on, and analyze their systems in real time.

<br/><br/>Lead the evolution toward intelligent, adaptive ingestion and make the platform the default OpenTelem