Cloud Platform Engineer - EC2/AWS Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited seeks software engineers to help build scalable EC2 platforms and customer-facing services. You will own design work, contribute to robust solutions, and operate within a DevOps model with on-call rotation.

The team emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and high-quality code, with opportunities to impact EC2 architecture and learn across AWS technologies.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Own and contribute to the development of quality designs and solutions.
• Solve complex problems with limited guidance and take a long-term view of services.
• Work with cross-team stakeholders to influence EC2 architecture at scale.

Skills

Software development

Programming fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Typescript

Python

Ruby

Go

C++

Job description

Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited seeks software engineers to help build scalable EC2 platforms and customer-facing services. You will own design work, contribute to robust solutions, and operate within a DevOps model with on-call rotation.

The team emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and high-quality code, with opportunities to impact EC2 architecture and learn across AWS technologies.