Amazon GuardDuty is a customer facing threat detection service that was built to protect applications and services running in AWS. The service processes trillions of events, and applies advanced analytics and machine learning to detect threats and aggregate threat intelligence. If you are interested in learning about operating a service at massive scale and working alongside world class engineers, then this role is for you. The team interacts with security researchers to codify security analytics into the service. In this role, you will enjoy working on complex software systems in a customer-centric environment.
We are seeking a Software Development Engineer with good knowledge of distributed systems to develop new and innovative security services.
Key job responsibilities
1. Design and implement complex security services for AWS.
2. Manage oncall once in 2 to 3 months for a week (which is very light for this team)
3. Provide mentorship to junior engineers
4. Support other team members in reviews
7. Foster innovation and handle ambigous problem and turn them into opertunities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ 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 software development engineer or related occupational 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
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually