Software Developer Engineer, AWS Security

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
Seattle, Washington, USA
$129.3K a year
Full-time
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At Amazon Security, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands customer obsession is part of our company DNA.

Amazon Security is a multidisciplinary team comprised of software engineers, security engineers, program managers, data engineers, and compliance specialists.

If you are looking for an opportunity to think big, invent, experiment, build, and have a material impact on cloud security and compliance, this is it.

As an SDE, your role is pivotal in maintaining the robust and innovative solutions of our team. You will work on complex challenges in existing and new development initiatives, focusing on areas with ambiguity.

Your goal is to design and develop software systems that are secure, maintainable, scalable, and extendable. You will develop an understanding of the business impact of your systems and make responsible trade-offs between the short-term operational needs and long-term business objectives.

Amazon and Amazon Web Services are growing at an unprecedented rate. To keep up with that growth, we are in constant need of innovative processes and automation solutions.

Your work will have a company-wide impact, affecting thousands of developers and teams, and enabling us to launch and scale our services rapidly.

Key job responsibilities

  • Write high-quality, efficient, and testable production code.
  • Build highly available, secure distributed systems at Amazon scale
  • Be an end-to-end technical owner of the services you build, including development, testing and support.
  • Make a direct contribution to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of an Agile team.
  • Be part of growing, tight-knit team within a wider community of experienced and knowledgeable engineers.

About the team

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.

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 & 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.

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.

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

Arlington, VA, USA Herndon, VA, USA New York City, NY, USA Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ 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

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
  • Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
  • 14 days ago
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