Specialist SA, Developer Transformation

Job Overview

Developers and development teams are key influencers who steer organizational adoption of new methodologies, technologies, services and platforms. The mission of the Developer Transformation (DevTx) team is to help developers gain greater familiarity and confidence building modern, cloud-native applications that take full advantage of the latest AI‑driven tools and AWS’s wide range of services. Through direct developer engagement, DevTx helps customers address actual business problems and accelerate design, development and deployment of production‑quality cloud-native application workloads.

Responsibilities

• Engage in one‑to‑one and one‑to‑many application architecture discussions with developers, software engineers, enterprise/solution architects and CTOs.
• Accelerate AWS adoption across student, startup and professional developer communities through conferences, events, meetups, user groups, and hackathons.
• Lead AWS developer events to achieve best‑in‑class quality by speaking, delivering live demos and engaging attendees.
• Create technical reference applications, starter kits, patterns and guidance that excite developers about AWS as a development platform.
• Contribute to reusable developer‑focused artefacts, including demos, sample code, blog posts, tutorials, and other technical content.
• Gather end‑user feedback on behalf of the developer community for AWS Product Management and Engineering; participate in design discussions to accelerate adoption and uphold best practices.

The role is based in Australia, however some international travel may be required.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) new and existing systems.
• Experience explaining complex technical concepts to diverse business and technical audiences.
• Experience working cross‑functionally across multiple technical and non‑technical teams.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience or a bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or related STEM fields.

Preferred Qualifications

• In‑depth knowledge of the software development life‑cycle and experience designing, developing, refactoring and operating distributed applications based on event‑driven microservice architectures that leverage a leading cloud platform.
• Hands‑on experience with multiple programming languages, tools and frameworks (e.g., C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Rust) and cloud‑centric technology domains such as Serverless, Containers, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, and high‑performance databases (SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience with AI‑driven coding assistants and tools that accelerate design, development and deployment of enterprise‑grade software.
• Experience in a customer‑facing role or a role that involved public speaking.
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Developer Associate or DevOps Engineer Professional) or another relevant industry certification.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

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