Software development engineer, Foundational Security

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

This role is located in Seattle, WA.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is job zero. Our team is responsible for
inventing new security services and features that enable and automate security
solutions at AWS’ massive scale. We are looking for a Software Development
Engineer to help innovate and build new services from the ground up that will
make security and innovation simultaneous for AWS product teams. Our team offers
the opportunity for engineers to help define, design, build, and operate new
services from end to end. You will work on a small and dynamic team, collaborate
with leading industry experts and gain experience building security services .
Come build with us!
Our team is looking for highly skilled software engineers, who ask lots of
questions, and challenge the status quo. We are a team of out-of-the-box
thinkers, who iterate quickly, and constantly raise the bar. If you like solving
hard problems and doing work with a clear impact for our customers, you'll enjoy
being a part of the team.
Specifically, we are building internal systems that process large data sets that
describe the dynamic internal systems, convert that data to actionable
information, and automatically apply security controls.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level