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Amazon Software Development Engineer, AWS Direct Connect in Sydney, Australia
Description
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Are you interested in creating highly available distributed systems at a uniquely large scale?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is looking for a highly skilled software developer to join our team in Sydney Australia. The AWS Direct Connect team delivers solutions that make it easy for customers to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to the AWS cloud. These connections help to reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. AWS Direct Connect is currently available in more than 100 locations located in 28 countries.
This position will be responsible for designing systems, developing software, and supporting the next generation of the AWS Direct Connect service architecture.
In this AWS Direct Connect organization, we build networks observability software to create reliable connectivity for our customers. This is a unique opportunity to build and innovate on one of the world’s largest networks that delivers hundreds of terabits of traffic each day for our customers.
For detailed info regarding Direct Connect visit:
http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect
Key job responsibilities
This position on the Direct Connect team will be designing and developing new SDN solutions for our customers. You'll be coming in on the ground floor as we build these exciting new services for our enterprise customers to grow their hybrid cloud solutions tailored to their specific network needs and ensuring durability, resiliency, speed and high availability.
Responsibilities:
Build new features that support AWS Direct Connect and our partner teams in AWS networking
Design and implement long-term architectures for AWS Direct Connect
Focus on impactful changes that will improve customer experience
Development and operate scalable, low-latency, high-availability services
Own and continuously improve the team’s software stack
Drive innovation on behalf of our customers
Execute against project plans and delivery commitments
A day in the life
Our engineers develop high performance, highly available software which handles routing for our customers. We design, build infrastructure, write code, test, deploy, monitor, and solve problems. Any given day you may be writing code to implement new features, designing our software architecture to create reliable systems, learning about new networking concepts so we can better serve our customers. We have lots of opportunity to influence the product and architecture.
About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Basic Qualifications
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
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's 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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