As a Software Development Engineer II on PitCrew, you will design, build, and operate services that act on hosts and containers across AWS at fleet scale. You will own features end to end: working with security engineers to understand a problem, writing the design, implementing it, deploying it, and operating what you ship. The work sits at the intersection of distributed systems, host and container internals, and security, and much of it is about making changes to production systems safely and reversibly at scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate services and automation that mitigate, remediate, and assess vulnerabilities across AWS fleets, reducing the attack surface and mean time to remediate without a human in the loop.
- Build the contextualization that turns raw findings into accurate, prioritized risk for builders, so service teams act on true criticals first.
- Own the full lifecycle of your software: requirements, design reviews, implementation, testing, deployment, metrics, alarms, and on-call.
- Build tooling that security engineers use daily, and work closely with them to turn investigation, remediation, assessment, and attestation workflows into software.
- Make changes to production hosts and containers safe by default: reversible, observable, attested, and gated appropriately.
- Raise the bar on operational excellence through metrics, dashboards, and continuous improvement of the systems you own.
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to the team's technical direction through design reviews and documentation.
A day in the life
You will spend most of your time designing and writing software, reviewing designs and code from teammates, and working with AVM security engineers and the partner teams that consume what we build. You will participate in the team's on-call rotation for the services we operate.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
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
- Experience building or operating systems in security, vulnerability management, fleet management, or host/container infrastructure, and interest in turning security findings into automated remediation
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, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
