System Development Engineer Intern, Sydney
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Do you love automating and streamlining manual processes? Do you have a passion for making things easier, better, faster and more efficient? Read on. We may have the right role for you.
Systems Development interns work with technical leaders to refine technical direction, and then follow through with detailed review, designs, and truly innovative code. They are builders who are experienced in at least one scripting language, are familiar with networking concepts, and familiar with working in a Linux environment. They are the industry’s brightest engineers who innovate every day on behalf of our customers.
Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” On a typical day engineers might deep dive to root cause a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way, consult with the top engineers at Amazon, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues.
Key job responsibilities
As a System Development Engineer Intern, you will/may:
- Troubleshoot, debug, evaluate and resolve computer-identified alarms (Oncall), make feature enhancements, bug fixes, systems management, perform software deployments and migrations and host management during office hours.
- Develop tools and automations to achieve human free operations; modifying software in a way that leverages the overall system architecture.
- Create and updating a strategic SRE toolkit built on AWS technology which is used across Amazon to deploy, monitor and operate the hundreds of thousands of services that power our highly distributed architecture. These tools include orchestration, predictive analytics, monitoring, problem diagnosis and automated repair.
- Analyse SRE data and deploy configurations that intelligently manage how traffic flows through our highly distributed architecture to our delighted customers.
- Develop an understanding of the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of your team’s infrastructure, including hardware platform, operating system, and build dependencies.
If this sounds exciting to you - come build the future with us!
Systems Development internships are full-time from Dec 2025 to Feb 2026.
About the team
Amazon has an opportunity for a System Development Engineer a specialist Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) team. This team host Amazon’s websites including Amazon’s global marketplaces and partner portals and consumer experiences such as Kindle, Alexa or Amazon Video. This team deliver the HTML that delights our customers and ensures that all underlying transactions are processed error-free. This includes payments, tax, contracts, returns, inventory, and notifications; and brand-new experiences that have never been done before. In short, we perform cloud infrastructure management at the biggest scale in the known universe. The ICON team is a diverse international team made up of engineers, developers, administrators and managers from around the globe. They are obsessed with operational quality, security, reducing cost, increasing availability and keeping the largest eCommerce infrastructure purring. They have offices in Sydney, Seattle, New York, Dublin, Bangalore and Hyderabad. We’re looking for a Systems Development Engineer who is inventive, who understands operational excellence, and can work to scale.