Software Development Engineer II, Security Response and Engineering

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join our team creating innovative solutions that help AWS developers build secure systems without sacrificing speed of delivery. In this role, you'll design and develop complex features for an AI-based security system that works like having a security expert embedded directly in development teams. You'll collaborate with scientists and security experts to build tools that provide continuous feedback to developers right in their IDE, allowing them to quickly identify and address security concerns in their designs and code. Your work will directly enable AWS developers to build more ambitious products faster than ever before, while maintaining the high security standards that AWS customers depend on. Our team is building an AI-based security system that functions like having a security expert embedded within development teams across AWS. The system provides developers with continuous feedback on their code directly within their IDE, enabling them to quickly identify and address security concerns before they become issues. We're focused on creating tools that make it significantly easier for developers to build security into their systems while still delivering innovative products to customers quickly. By combining expertise in AI, security, and software development, we're helping to maintain the high security standards that AWS customers rely on while enabling faster, more ambitious product development. This is a high impact and highly visible team.

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
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl 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

• Design and develop features for an AI-based security system that provides continuous feedback on code security within developers' IDEs, ensuring developers can quickly update designs to remove security issues
• Work collaboratively with scientists and security experts to build trusted security guidance systems for AWS developers, ensuring high quality and operational excellence
• Contribute significantly to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code, testing, deployment, and maintenance of the team's software
• Actively participate in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to team members and ensuring security best practices are followed
• Engage directly with development teams across AWS to understand their needs, gather feedback, and implement improvements that enhance the developer experience while maintaining security standards

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed