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Job Summary

• Southwest’s Observability Accelerators & AI Pod develops enterprise observability accelerators and AI-powered operational tools. The team builds reusable onboarding frameworks, OpenTelemetry deployment patterns, dashboards, migration tooling, agent telemetry, anomaly detection, and investigation capabilities that help engineering teams improve reliability and recover from incidents faster.

• As Software Engineer – Observability Accelerators & AI, you’ll build, test, and support production-grade software and cloud-native AWS solutions using services such as Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, and API Gateway. You’ll contribute to CI/CD pipelines, Terraform or CloudFormation configurations, and telemetry experiences across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts. You’ll also gain hands-on experience integrating AI-enabled skills or agents into observability workflows that improve developer productivity and operational response.

• Design, write program code, test, document, and implement functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated application systems in accordance with Customer requirements, organizational methodologies, and standards. Respond to production problems and implement immediate resolution efforts across technology areas.

• Apply knowledge and skills of software development and testing effectively to solve a range of problems
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices
• Collaborate closely with customers and cross-functional departments to communicate project statuses and proposals
• Document each aspect of a system or application as a reference for future upgrades and maintenance
• Determine and assess the needs of the user and then create software to meet the requirements
• Identify and resolve issues that arise during the design, testing and maintenance processes using problem-solving skills
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming
• Mentor junior members on the team
• Improve and expand technical capabilities by continuing their education thru reading, workshops, conferences, and/or communities of practice
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

• Intermediate knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and / or work experience
• Ability to demonstrate consistent knowledge application, skills of software development, and testing to solve a range of problems
• Intermediate knowledge of at least one required programming language
• Ability to partner, communicate, and negotiate with various Technology or partner Teams
• Ability to analyze and manage large, complex, and vague Business or technical problems, articulating the problem or root cause, and translating the analysis into viable solution recommendations
• Ability to take on multiple assignments, whether administrative or project related, while maintaining a successful level of completion in all responsible work
• Ability to mentor others to do the same
• Ability to develop, present and effectively communicate ideas and strategies to a variety of audiences

• Required: Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training

• Required: Intermediate-level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in software engineering
• 2-5 years of relevant work-related experience
• AWS Lambda; Step Functions; EventBridge; SQS; API Gateway; Python or similar; Terraform; CloudFormation; CI/CD; Grafana; CloudWatch; Prometheus; OpenTelemetry; AI skills / agents

• Preferred:

  • Automated testing; machine learning; anomaly detection; SRE; cost optimization

• Must meet confidentiality expectations as to confidential, proprietary and sensitive Company information
• Ability to work extended hours as needed