Software Development Engineer, Region Services

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AWS Region Services is responsible for building and operating the foundational infrastructure that powers AWS Regions across the globe. Our team designs, builds, and operates large-scale distributed systems that millions of customers depend on every day for compute, storage, security, and data management workloads.

We are looking for Software Development Engineers to join our team in Melbourne and help expand and strengthen AWS's regional infrastructure in Australia. You will design, implement, and operate distributed services that handle critical workloads at AWS scale. You will own features end-to-end, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production operations. You will work with junior engineers providing mentoring, and senior engineers designing and planning software solutions to complex problems.

You will work in an agile environment alongside other experienced developers and engineers, tackling problems in areas such as large-scale automation, service reliability, and cross-region operations. If you want your engineering decisions to have real impact at AWS scale, we would love to hear from you.

These roles are strictly Melbourne based, however we will provide interstate relocation support.

Key job responsibilities

- Design, implement, and operate distributed services and tooling that support AWS regional infrastructure at scale.

- Own features end-to-end, from scoping and design through coding, testing, deployment, and live-site operations.

- Contribute to system architecture decisions, balancing trade-offs between scalability, performance, availability, and cost.

- Collaborate with engineers across multiple teams and AWS organisations to deliver cross-service integrations and platform improvements.

- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and raise the engineering bar through thoughtful code reviews and design discussions.

- Drive improvements including performance optimisations, infrastructure modernisation, and technical debt reduction.

- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure service reliability and drive root-cause fixes for production issues.

- Mentor fellow engineers and contribute to a team culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and inclusion.

A day in the life

No two days look the same. You might spend the morning designing a new automation capability, the afternoon debugging a latency issue across a distributed system and end the day reviewing a teammate's design document. You will work with engineers across your team and across AWS to solve problems that do not always have clear answers, from building customer-facing features to optimising system performance to delivering cross-team integrations. We value engineers who are curious, pragmatic, and comfortable with ambiguity. You will have real ownership from day one.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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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

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

- Knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, operating systems, algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis

- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and event-driven architectures

- Experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure

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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