Software Development Engineer, Security Incident Response Engineering

Amazon Security is looking for a Software Development Engineer who is passionate about building scaled software supporting the high-tempo needs of security operations at Amazon.

Our team's mission is to build the best worldwide end-to-end security findings management solution for security operation teams.

Our systems / products are critical path and used by security engineers daily in their quest to defend Amazon and its customers against internal and external threats.

Come help us drive best practices, operational and engineering excellence across the organization, impacting how other teams operate!

Key job responsibilities

• You will work with other members of our growing team to investigate approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility of ideas.
• You will write high quality distributed software systems using AWS technologies.
• You will take an active part in leading the design, development and operations of software / tooling used to keep Amazon’s customers safe
• You will ship software in a fast-paced environment and collaborate on new approaches to building and serving Amazon’s security.

About the team

The Amazon Defensive Security Organization protects and defends customer trust by ensuring resilience to information security threats.

We strive to understand our attack surface and threats, respond with adaptive defenses based on risk. Software Engineering is a core component that helps us achieve our mission through building high-profile, critical software platforms at scale that allow security professionals at Amazon to focus on new and unknown threats while software manages all known unknowns.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 Amazon Security

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services.

We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness.

Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training and 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 3+ years of professional experience building scalable software solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) or equivalent, including familiarity with serverless computing and security best practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 3+ years of professional experience building scalable software solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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