System Development Engineer Intern, Sydney

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 2026 to Feb 2027.


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.

Basic Qualifications

- Are 18 years of age or older
- Current penultimate year student pursuing a Bachelor or higher degree   (Graduating after Feb 2027)
- Able to commence internship from 7th December 2026 to mid February 2027
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix - Experience tools for automation (building, testing, releasing or monitoring)

Preferred Qualifications

- Documentation and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Familiarity with IP networking and troubleshooting.
- Shell scripting experience with Bash or other common Linux shell
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience with automating and simplifying team development, test, and operations processes

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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