Software Development Engineer, Public Sector Customer Engineering

AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

The Public Sector Customer Engineering team helps customers solve their most interesting business challenges by rapidly developing innovative prototypes using world-class cloud and open-source technologies. Weve helped customers by using image recognition to find missing persons Artificial Intelligence to optimise rideshares and Machine Learning to grade exam answers. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the team.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer you will;

Design develop test and deploy well-architected software
Feel a real sense of achievement from completing and delivering projects in less time than you thought possible.
Get hands-on with a range of technologies and practice a range of disciplines: back-end front-end DevOps machine learning data science data architecture. We are curious generalists who dont pigeon-hole ourselves as particular flavours of engineer and never say thats not my job.
Collaborate with customers through full engagements; youll learn about their business challenges rapidly design and develop prototypes to solve them showcase the functionality youve written in demos and finally see the difference youve made when customers deploy solutions into their production environments.
Work with the latest AWS services and open-source technologies to build your prototypes. Youll always be encouraged to pick the right tools for the job.



A day in the life
You will have the opportunity to be part of one of the fastest growing customer obsessed and innovative companies in the world. You will be able to dive deep into the details on operations and engineering. Everyone is a leader at AWS. You will have a lot of ownership and autonomy. You will face unique challenges learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry and build deep expertise in the most sought after skills in the market. You will be part of an exceptional team of product managers and engineers where collaboration is highly valued where innovation is something that happens every day where taking risks is encouraged and every day is Day One.

Youll have access to a wealth of Amazon internal training including instructor-led courses and talks from experts. This will give you the opportunity to become an AWS expert gaining valuable expertise in AWS services used in Machine Learning IoT image recognition chat bots and Big Data. We will provide the environment and support to learn any new tools libraries or frameworks.



About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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