About the position
As a Senior Software Development Engineer on our team, you’ll help build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure, including advanced persistent threats. You’ll work with security engineers and data scientists, and help lead other software development engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at a massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and help preserve our customers’ trust in us. You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats – not many teams can say that! We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers. We want someone who will help us amplify the positive and inclusive team culture we’ve been building.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to build automated security detection and mitigation workflows
- Design scalable architectures for low-latency, big data processing
- Improve the observability, performance, and efficiency of our existing systems
- Raise the bar for testing, repeatability, automation, and operational excellence
- Serve as a team and tech lead
- Mentor and develop teammates, both technically and professionally
- Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technologies
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience with large-scale data processing and analysis
- Experience working with cybersecurity teams
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Equity options
- Sign-on payments
- Comprehensive employee benefits package
