Software Development Engineer II (CloudWatch Collectors)

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Company

hirify.global develops AWS CloudWatch, a large-scale observability platform for monitoring logs, metrics, events, applications, and infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, massively scaled CloudWatch telemetry collection systems.
• Develop and operate collection agents written in Rust and Go for hosts and containers across AWS Regions.
• Investigate root causes of collection and reliability issues, implement fixes, and prevent recurrence.
• Translate customer and internal requirements into designs, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver incremental features.
• Contribute changes to OpenTelemetry and engage with upstream open-source communities.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with senior and principal engineers.

Requirements

• Professional software development experience outside internships.
• Experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Strong programming skills in at least two of Rust, Go, Java, C++, and Python.
• Experience across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
• Ability to work effectively in a diverse, collaborative engineering team.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Open-source contributions or demonstrated enthusiasm, including work with OpenTelemetry.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile team environment focused on reliable, usable, highly available services.
• Buddy support and structured investment in engineer development from the start.
• Close collaboration with senior and principal engineers and opportunities to mentor junior engineers.
• Inclusive culture supporting diverse teams and workplace accommodations during hiring and onboarding.