Software Development Engineer II, Defensive Security - Vulnerability Management

Amazon•Austin, TX

14h

About The Position

Are you ready to make a significant impact on security engineering at Amazon? We are looking for a collaborative Software Development Engineer to join our Vulnerability Management team, where you'll develop innovative tools that empower Security Engineers across Amazon. In this role, you'll design and build critical features that enhance our defensive security capabilities while helping to shape the future of our security infrastructure. As part of this team, you'll work on system design, AWS configuration, feature development, and strategic technical planning. You'll collaborate with security and technical teams worldwide to create solutions that protect Amazon's vast ecosystem. This is a unique opportunity to directly contribute to Amazon's security posture while mentoring newer engineers and growing your technical expertise in a high-impact environment. Your day will be dynamic and varied, moving between system design, feature development and strategic technical planning. You might start by helping a Security Engineer extend an application your team built, then shift to conducting a deep-dive analysis that leads you to advocate for a feature rewrite. As a member of a self-organizing team, you'll help shape processes, outcomes, and goals through interactions with senior leadership while adapting to Amazon's scale, emerging security threats, and new technologies. 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.

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
Knowledge of batch and streaming data architectures like Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Storm, Beam

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
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale
Scripting skills (e.g., Perl, Python shell scripting)
Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems.

Responsibilities

Design and develop significant new features that enable Security Engineers to efficiently identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities across Amazon's systems
Collaborate with security and technical teams worldwide to understand requirements and create effective solutions for vulnerability management
Participate actively in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to team members and contributing to the full software development lifecycle
Demonstrate operational excellence in your work, ensuring that root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved with permanent fixes
Develop and maintain the vulnerability knowledge base while automating the vulnerability workflow and process
Earning trust in all directions; building partnerships with technical internal Amazon stakeholders WW
System resilience testing and preparation