About the position
Are you excited about building large complex systems and applications which are highly innovative, capable, flexible, and scalable to deliver long term values? Security issues at this scale and speed require a passion for engineering robust solutions to complex security challenges, as well as the ability to quickly design and build solutions to address them. We are seeking Software Engineers deeply committed to ensuring that our data is protected and putting effective countermeasures against the ever-changing cyberattack methodologies. Our Threat Engineering and Development team builds technology to protect the customer and Amazon's data through detection and containment before, during, and after attacks. As a member of our team, you will work with security experts, creating web and backend applications. Members of this team have a high degree of fluency in one or more languages and tools. They work with a focus on simplicity and performance. As a Software Development Engineer, you will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day, by people you know.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for sub-system design/architecture and development for product initiatives and feature development.
- Investigate, prototype and deliver innovative system solutions.
- Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software.
- Work side by side with partners, colleagues and teams on challenging problems.
- Be highly effective and thrive in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities.
- Take great pride to innovate on new products that are used by millions of users.
- Understand what's important when releasing software to end users and have been through the process from start to finish.
- Proactively communicate with peers and technical leadership.
- Never shy away from a challenge.
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
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Employee benefits including equity and sign-on payments
