Software Development Engineer, Amazon Cloud Management Foundations
About The Position
The Amazon Cloud Management Foundations team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who has a passion for security-at-scale. You will work on a team building services that monitor Amazon network hosts and their configurations. We develop the tools that keep Amazon safe from malicious actors by preventing, detecting, and mitigating security events. We work closely with our Application Security, Threat Intel, Security Operations, and Security Analyst teams to drive security improvements across the company. Our team deals with large quantities of data, pushing the envelope on scale and various advanced analytical techniques to find and mitigate security threats. You’ll be expected to develop robust large scale distributed systems for processing data, and to provide technical leadership to other engineers to do the same. While you may not be a security expert just yet, you have a passion for solving security challenges in innovative ways. You’ll develop a broad and deep understanding of the overall Amazon security posture and develop many of the core technology components to improve and scale. The mission of the Network Security team within Amazon Cloud Management Foundations is to ensure all network endpoints meet the Amazon Security bar. This requires building large distributed systems that are capable of auditing internally-owned network hosts for potential misconfigurations. This team also develops solutions that drive remediation of network host misconfigurations at Amazon-scale, ensuring it remains secure for our customers.
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
- Be a technical leader that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate.
- Own, drive, and deliver software solutions
- Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
- Develop relationships with internal and external partner teams to move fast.
- Help establish the long-term success strategy for your systems, development best practices, and operational excellence processes.
- Collaborate with peers to ensure your strategies are in alignment with the rest of the development teams.
- Develop junior and new team members by mentoring them on multiple fronts.
Benefits
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
