Software Development Engineer (AWS Networking)

Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The role is based in Sydney and works with distributed engineering teams across the US, Canada, and Australia.

Company

hirify.global builds and operates AWS, including the global backbone network supporting services such as S3, EC2, and Direct Connect.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain software services that steer traffic across the AWS global backbone.
• Develop traffic engineering controllers that detect congestion and failures in real time and reroute traffic to healthier paths.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and automation tooling for network health visibility.
• Participate in system design discussions covering APIs, data modelling, scalability, reliability, and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with network engineers, systems engineers, and partner teams to translate operational needs into software solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and on-call rotations, typically one week every two months, while resolving incidents and fixing root causes.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Experience programming in at least one software programming language.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AWS backbone infrastructure spanning 400+ global sites and connecting regions and edge locations worldwide.
• Collaborate with software, systems development, and network engineers across the US, Canada, and Australia.
• Participate in mentorship, knowledge sharing, design discussions, and constructive code reviews.
• On-call participation is typically one week every two months.
• hirify.global provides workplace accommodations during the application and hiring process when needed.