Come change the way the world uses the Cloud! At AWS Professional Services Products and Solutions, we don't just support cloud transformations — we accelerate them. Our team builds the internal products and tools that empower AWS consultants to deliver faster, smarter, and more impactful customer outcomes. At the heart of our work is a knowledge base that brings quality, consistency, and efficiency to every customer engagement around the globe. If you're driven to build products that scale impact across thousands of customers and reshape how enterprises adopt the cloud, we want you on our team.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design, delivery, and implementation of complex, large-scale systems and features, providing technical guidance and advocating for Amazon's highest engineering standards.
- Collaborate with cross functional roles (e.g. Product and UX), working backwards from customer needs to design solutions that solve real problems.
- Architect and develop robust, scalable, and maintainable services across end-to-end solutions, often spanning multiple platforms (web, mobile, backend)
- Implement and drive best practices in modern software engineering — design, testing, version control, documentation, deployment, and operations — including the adoption of GenAI assistance tools, automated code reviews, and AI-assisted testing.
- Analyse and optimise system performance, scalability, and reliability using data-driven approaches and modern monitoring tools.
- Define technical strategies and contribute to the long-term roadmap, including integration of emerging AI technologies.
- Lead conversations with senior leadership.
- Actively participate in hiring, mentoring, and growing other engineers, and foster knowledge-sharing across the team and the broader organisation.
- Obtain and maintain AWS Certifications.
A day in the life
As a Senior Software Development Engineer (Snr SDE), you'll be a technical leader driving decisions that impact critical customer experiences. You'll tackle complex initiatives head-on—building high-quality, scalable systems for our global customer base while shaping our technical architecture and maintaining direct ownership of key components. Bridging strategic vision with tactical execution, you'll combine hands-on development with system design, mentor team members, and champion engineering excellence to ensure we build maintainable solutions that scale with our business.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
