Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leading cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services to developers worldwide.
Security
Mid-Level Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
3+ years of experience
AI · Cybersecurity · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

Our team works with the many AWS teams to solve security challenges that affect every AWS service at massive scale. Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud. They harness the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. The AWS Security team owns security for all of these services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, and many others.

We enable trust by building services that meet the security goals of our customers, from compliance to analysis. We dive deep into security technologies such as new authentication systems, hardware security components, cryptography, system hardening, and massive-scale audit analysis. Our team creates services that continuously scan, identify, and report on potential security threats for AWS. We deal with immense quantities of data from millions of sources to monitor and support hundreds of AWS teams keep their services secure.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will leverage Amazon technology (Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, etc.) to solve AWS Security problems at staggering scale. You will raise the bar on our software architecture and development practices. You will share ownership of our operational excellence, ensuring our system is properly tuned and has appropriate alarms for warning or error conditions. You will help drive our working backwards processes, inventing and simplifying on behalf of our customers. You will build security detections that identify specific security issues and automatically help customers reduce their risk through network and security controls.

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. You will also have specific on-call responsibilities to support the European Sovereign Cloud. We don't like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don't get paged for the same issue twice.

Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we "Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History." We follow an agile development approach that emphasizes empowerment of the team. You will collaborate with AWS services to design and develop new security features using AWS technology, deploying software through our large automated systems, and operationally supporting your newly deployed software. You will work with security engineers and data scientists to apply radically new approaches to complex, multifaceted problems in network and application security.

Join our world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world-class service is critical to customer success.

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Responsibilities For Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

  • Leverage Amazon technology (Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, etc.) to solve AWS Security problems at staggering scale
  • Raise the bar on software architecture and development practices
  • Share ownership of operational excellence, ensuring proper system tuning and appropriate alarms
  • Drive working backwards processes, inventing and simplifying on behalf of customers
  • Build security detections that identify specific security issues and automatically help customers reduce risk
  • Collaborate with AWS services to design and develop new security features
  • Work with security engineers and data scientists to apply new approaches to complex security problems
  • Participate in on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months

Requirements For Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

Java
Python
Go
Rust
Linux
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (related field) or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum of three years (non internship) software development experience in a combination of any of the following languages: C++, Java, C#, Python, Go, or Rust
  • Minimum of three years experience working with Linux operating system development
  • Experience working in backend software engineering applications that process large datasets such as network flow logs or security telemetry
  • Fluency in written and spoken English

Benefits For Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

Relocation Benefits
Visa Sponsorship
  • Relocation Benefits
  • Visa Sponsorship

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