Software Development Engineer, SBS Proactive Security

Amazon • Herndon, VA

8h

About The Position

The Amazon's Specialized Business Security core Proactive Security team designs
and engineers security products to protect high-profile devices and consumer
experiences including the best-selling Kindle family of products, offerings such
as Amazon Photos and devices like Amazon Echo, Fire tablets, Amazon Fire TV,
Echo Show, Echo Spot. How will you help us build software tooling to secure
customer experiences and data?

We are looking for a strong software development engineer to design, develop,
test, troubleshoot, triage, debug, deploy, maintain, document, and deliver
large-scale, highly distributed innovative solutions for securing web
applications and services that enable amazing customer experiences on Amazon
devices at scale. You will own the design of major security tooling,
infrastructure, define development roadmaps, own key deliverables and have
opportunities to build them from scratch. You will lead and mentor other
talented engineers. You will be responsible for building the best customer
experience, keeping latency, security, and usability in mind. You will interact
with Product Managers and Designers and convert their vision into a technical
solution. You will collaborate with other Software Engineers to guide the team
on development best practices and set examples by using them in solutions that
you build. This is a high visibility and fast-paced environment where you will
make a direct impact on the customer experience and the bottom line of the
company. We have ambitious goals to build high impact tooling and to delight our
customers with a great product.

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
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience

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

• Gather and analyze business and functional requirements, and translate business requirements into technical design specifications.
• Write high-quality, efficient, testable code and recommend improvements in development, maintenance, and system standards, and contribute to software documentation.
• Design, develop and deploy medium to large software solutions
• Be responsible for technical problem solving, meeting product objectives, and developing best practices
• Serve as an essential technical resource in the full development cycle.
• Mentor junior team members technically
• Work in an agile development environment.

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