Principal Applied Scientist, CloudWatch, Amazon Intelligent Operations

Job description

Principal Applied Scientist, CloudWatch, Amazon Intelligent Operations

Job ID: 2837108 | Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry.

As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Come and build the future with us as we change the way the world sees the Cloud!

The CloudWatch team in Dublin is looking for a world-class Principal Applied Scientist to lead our teams to create the next generation of AI-based monitoring solutions.

CloudWatch is the observability platform of AWS, built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers.

CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS, and on-premises servers.

Customers use CloudWatch to set high-resolution alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to optimize their applications, and ensure they are running smoothly.

CloudWatch is one of the largest real-time data platforms in the world, processing more than 13 quadrillion metric observations per month! This requires teams in CloudWatch to innovate at an unprecedented scale.

In CloudWatch, we love giving customers what they want: high quality, highly usable, highly available services.

It’s humbling and energizing to work with excellent, dedicated engineers to build and deliver world-leading service monitoring solutions at AWS scale.

We’re looking for the brightest minds who will invent, implement, and apply state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and systems to our AI-based monitoring solutions.

You will interact closely with our customers and the academic community.

You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus for CloudWatch and work with other world-class scientists and engineers.

You will also help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building.

Key Job Responsibilities

As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will take on challenging and ambiguous customer problems, distill customer requirements, and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic research or utilize your own out-of-the-box but pragmatic thinking.

You will research and develop novel approaches for anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and provide intelligent insights from vast amounts of monitoring and observability data.

You will collaborate with scientists and engineers across the CloudWatch team as well as directly with customers.

You will hire, develop, grow, and mentor our junior scientists.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Ph.D. degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Math, or a related field
2. Hands-on experience in solving difficult machine learning problems
3. Expert at more than one major programming language (C++, Java, or similar) and at least one scripting language (Perl, Python, or similar)
4. Demonstrated ability to serve as a technical lead
5. Excellent writing skills for presenting business cases and scientific models with rigorous analyses that support results/conclusions to influence important decisions.
   
   
6. Strong fundamentals in problem solving, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
7. Proven track in leading, mentoring, and growing teams of scientists

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Deep technical knowledge of machine learning and statistical methodologies
2. Experience with deep learning toolkits and frameworks
3. Solid software development experience
4. Algorithm and model development experience for large-scale applications
5. Experience with defining research and development practices in an applied environment
6. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with technical and business people.
   
   
7. Professional traits, that are not unique to this position but are necessary for Amazon leaders, including exhibiting excellent judgment; maintaining relentlessly high standards; thinking strategically while staying on top of tactical execution; expecting innovation from collaborators; thinking big; having convictions; being results-oriented; and inspiring passion in others about learning, research, and implementation

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer.

We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.

We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.

We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build.

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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.

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Required Skill Profession

Science, Research And Teaching