Tuyển dụngAmazonPosted: 05/11/2026Application deadline: Until filledAmazon is hiring: Software Development Engineer, AWS Border Network Engineering (Sydney)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Sydney is hiring a Software Development Engineer (3+ years of SWE and 2+ years of system design experience) to build traffic engineering software for the AWS global backbone.
The role
The AWS Border Network Engineering team builds traffic-engineering and fast-reroute software for the AWS global backbone network — the infrastructure connecting every region and edge site behind S3, EC2 and Direct Connect. As a Software Development Engineer in Sydney, you will design and maintain controllers that detect congestion and link failures across 400+ global sites in real time and automatically steer traffic onto healthy paths, while improving observability tooling and joining a regular on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in system design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling)
- Proficiency in at least one modern software programming language
Nice to have
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience across coding standards, code reviews, build pipelines, testing and production operations
Good to know
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, working with a distributed team across the US, Canada and Australia (typical on-call rotation is one week every two months).
- Job ID 10597286, posted on 5 November 2026.
How the interview usually goes
Amazon's SDE interview process typically begins with an online coding assessment, followed by loop interviews covering data structures and algorithms, scalable distributed system design, and behavioural questions anchored in Amazon's Leadership Principles.