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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a 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, best-in-class Software and Systems Engineers for our Sydney engineering team.

In this role, you’ll develop software that’s removing the need for human intervention by performing millions of daily operations across a multitude of regions across the globe. You’ll join a team that’s instrumental in driving the stability and sustainability of our next-generation 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.

You’ll 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 Amazon's 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 data-driven decisions and juggle cross-organization 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 Amazon's Next-Generation 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 end-users 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 day-to-day and long-term strategic basis, which carries a large amount of responsibility and impact across all of Amazon’s products.


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