Software Development Engineer II, Security Products

Amazon • Austin, TX

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Defensive Security’s Threat Detection team provides threat detection coverage for all of Amazon and its subsidiaries across endpoint, cloud, network, and application vectors, ensuring Amazon infrastructure and customer data is secured. This team works on challenging problems influenced by thousands of variables and is looking for talented individuals eager to make an impact. The candidate will be part of a diverse team spanning software and security engineering disciplines, collaborating with leaders across Amazon Security to build complex threat detection products and deliver comprehensive threat detection coverage at optimal business costs. The role offers an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers individuals to own them to completion. The product is at the forefront of innovating sophisticated, low-latency, high-performance threat detection solutions that are critical to safeguarding Amazon's success and protecting customer data. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment. They will also need to be proactive, jump on problems quickly to come up with innovative solutions, and operate with minimal guidance.

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

• Manage critical components of our threat detection platform that processes millions of messages in a day
• Evaluate different design choices, prototype new technology, and implement technical solutions that address business requirements
• Contribute in defining product roadmap, understand business impact of system choices, and make technical trade-offs using sound judgement
• Work closely with product leadership, security partners to understand the requirements, design and deliver innovative solutions to raise bar on customer trust.
• Drive engineering best practices around operational excellence, security, test automation coverage and set standards in the team
• Deal with ambiguity, make data-driven decisions and juggle cross-organization complexity
• Drive consensus when confronted with discordant views by identifying the best path forward and influence other to follow it

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree