System Development Engineer, Rollcage

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.

For a network at AWS scale, our distributed services play a critical role keeping the network safe while configurations are being deployed to routers throughout the world.

As an engineer in this diverse team, you and your colleagues will work together to build software that emulate, deploy and validate changes to Amazon network devices many times a day. The software you write will ensure safety of changes at "Amazon scale". You will dive deep into Amazon's network architecture and closely work with many teams to influence Amazon's network configuration and management. You will use this knowledge to develop our software to solve challenging problems with an amazing team in a fast paced environment.

We're looking for people who enjoy a technical challenge, are passionate about what they do and bring to the table a fresh perspective. Here are some reasons you should come work with us:
- Work as part of a diverse team with some of the best minds in the industry, across the world
- Handle the complete software development lifecycle: defining, prioritizing, designing, building, and testing.
- Have the opportunity of participating in the solution of problems not yet solved by the industry.
- Learn to write scalable software which is capable of handling high-volume requests.
- Have a self-learning day every 2 weeks to grow your career, learn new technologies or work on side projects

Key job responsibilities
- You will need to adopt and champion software engineering best practices, across the entire software development life cycle; including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- You must be able to deliver high quality code against - You will be required to communicate with users, technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements

A day in the life
About AWS

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About the team
Rollcage team is committed to create positive working environment for everyone. We have people come from different culture and background, and make sure everyone's voice is heard and respected. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive culture and get everyone's back in difficult situations. We run Scrum, and everyone gets a full "self-learning" day every sprint to focus on career development, learning new technologies and work on interesting side projects

Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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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