Software Development Engineer, AWS Direct Connect

Software Developer For AWS Direct Connect

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.

Key job 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 on their appropriate application
• 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

A day in the life:

Our engineers develop high performance, highly available software which handles network monitoring 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, write up a design proposal of a new feature for collaborative review. We have lots of opportunity to influence the product and architecture.

About the team:

This opportunity exists within the AWS Direct Connect organization, where 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.