Cloud Software Engineer – Scale & Resilience

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is hiring a Software Engineer to join a diverse team of engineers and specialists. You’ll design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software that powers AWS services and global infrastructure.

You’ll collaborate across teams to evaluate feasibility, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced Agile environment. The role focuses on building scalable, reliable systems with emphasis on architecture, code quality, and documentation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and OO design in Linux/Unix.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
• Investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
• Write high quality distributed system software and perform peer code-reviews.
• Perform development and maintenance of key system features.
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence.
• Provide technical direction to the team and identify areas of focus.
• Establish architectural principles, selecting design patterns and mentoring team members.
• Create and review software design documentation and mentor junior engineers.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc

Skills

Software development

System design

Linux/Unix

Algorithms & data structures

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services is hiring a Software Engineer to join a diverse team of engineers and specialists. You’ll design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software that powers AWS services and global infrastructure.

You’ll collaborate across teams to evaluate feasibility, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced Agile environment. The role focuses on building scalable, reliable systems with emphasis on architecture, code quality, and documentation.