Software Development Engineer Internet Optimizations

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a bestinclass Software Development Engineer for the Internet Optimizations team in Sydney Australia. This team works at the Internet edge of the AWS global network connecting Amazon services to the Internet via external peering and transit connectivity. We are looking to hire motivated bestinclass Software and Systems Engineers for our Sydney engineering team.

In this role youll develop software thats removing the need for human intervention by performing millions of daily operations across a multitude of regions across the globe. Youll join a team thats instrumental in driving the stability and sustainability of our nextgeneration networks and discovering innovative ways to automate and scale services as we continue to expand.

The Networking & Infrastructure teams at AWS are building software to simplify the internet and control traffic automate network remediation and deployment improve performance for customers answer queries about the safety of network actions and automatically detect anomalies using scientific intelligence and roll out new software to the fleet of network devices with minimum human interaction.

Youll join a group that owns a product and iterates fast to continuously improve. A group that ships positivity within the team to create a happy and respectful work environment and values self investment as a core part of their success.

Key job responsibilities
* Design and build reusable maintainable and performant software consistent with Amazon standard technologies
* Develop best in class software systems for automating Amazons network
* Provide technical direction to the team and identify areas of focus
* Must be able to independently design code and test major features as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
* Deal with ambiguity make datadriven decisions and juggle crossorganization complexity
* Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues new standard operating procedures and product documentation.
* Collaborate with the Network Engineering and Operations teams to automate and invent new ways of operating Amazons NextGeneration Network

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer on the Internet Edge organization you will have a wide range of responsibilities: we evolve routing policy implement traffic engineering solutions grow our peering footprint secure the front door from bad actors on the Internet and architect the hardware platforms and network design to support any Amazon product that needs to reach endusers worldwide. Our infrastructure moves terabits of traffic to and from the Internet at any given moment and represents one of the largest edge surface areas in the world requiring complex solutions to ensure that capacity always stays ahead of demand. To accomplish that our engineers develop automation write software and work with a wide range of partner teams to continually improve and automate our Internet connectivity in areas such as capacity delivery configuration deployment impairment detection and traffic optimization. Internet Edge engineers make decisions on both a daytoday and longterm strategic basis which carries a large amount of responsibility and impact across all of Amazons products.


About the team
Our mission is to innovate build and operate Internetspecific services that deliver the most secure highest performing and scalable Internet connectivity possible for our customers while ensuring our customers are never constrained.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation disability age or other legally protected attributes.

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