Full Job Description
Software Development Engineer, Security Foundations, Stores Security
Key job responsibilities
- Design and build well-architected services and tools that raise the security bar for engineering teams across Amazon.
- Use your problem-solving skills to work through ambiguous, high-impact problems in collaboration with engineers, applied scientists, and security specialists, applying Amazon's principles of thinking big, inventing, and simplifying.
- Deliver end-to-end features that combine cloud back-end services on AWS, data pipelines, and modern developer-facing experiences.
- Partner with teams across Amazon to integrate our capabilities into the tools, workflows, and services that builders already use every day, so security guidance meets developers where they are.
- Bring strong engineering judgment, clear communication, and a sense of ownership to challenging and ambiguous problems, and drive them to a high-quality outcome in a fast-paced environment.
- Provide guidance to and mentor other engineers on the team, and help grow the technical skills and security intuition of the people around you.
- Own the quality bar for your area, including thoughtful design reviews, robust automated testing, healthy code coverage, and reliable CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in the operational excellence of the services you build, including monitoring, on-call, and continuous improvement based on real production learnings.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will create software designs and implementation for medium-to-large scale projects across security and compliance engineering . You will work directly with creative, product management and program management to understand and define requirements and apply your technical expertise to solve difficult software problems in a fast-paced environment. You'll design and build software and systems for novel customer experiences, AWS services, and large-scale back-end web services, all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.
About the team
The Security & Compliance Engineering (SCE) team team builds innovative solutions that elevate security standards and streamline compliance across Amazon. We develop state-of-the-art platforms and tools that enable secure-by-default development, automate security assurance, provide data-driven risk insights, and detect fraud earlier in the attack lifecycle. By partnering closely with security teams and builders, we transform manual processes into automated, scalable solutions that protect Amazon's customers and business.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
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
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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