In this role, you will have the exceptional opportunity to be a part of the foundational team that helps enable significant security objectives in AmSec. As a Software Development Engineer, your responsibilities will encompass designing, building, and scaling both our front-end framework and back-end APIs and services. This position demands a candidate who can think strategically and analytically about business and product challenges, and who possesses the ability to integrate compelling value propositions into software development.
Your role will require strong cross-organizational collaboration, as you will work closely with engineers and leaders to drive product vision and lead technical implementation efforts. The successful candidate will demonstrate a unique blend of technical leadership and deep engineering expertise, combined with the ability to dive into the details to guide engineering decisions. This position offers the chance to engage and influence a diverse team, playing a key role in shaping the future of our product and business.
You will partner with with other Product teams, and Engineering teams to evaluate and develop security services and infrastructure. If you enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the strategic direction of a large global organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity. You will join a diverse team of product owners, software engineers, machine learning experts, data engineers and data scientists, working on a wide range of technical challenges across the full stack. You will drive software innovations to improve performance and cost.
Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the engineering team, you will have influence on our product strategy by helping define the product features, refine system architecture, and spearhead best practices that enable a quality product.
A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.
You will heavily influence design and implement significant portions of "critical-path" code, work independently and collaborate on software design reviews with senior engineers to ensure software is scalable, performant, and maintainable for the long term.
You will help deliver high quality software that is secure, testable, maintainable, efficient, and has little to no defects.
Creating a highly stable foundational service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
You will focus on operational excellence including analyzing the overall health and performance of the system, such as the operational management of the graph database cluster, performance of our daily ETL and vended APIs.
You should enjoy working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.
A day in the life
The bulk of an average day is centered around designing and building features to enhance existing applications.
Otherwise other elements of a day that happen are:
• Working on ad-hoc requests and bug fixes
• Participating in doc reviews with product managers and stakeholders
• Supporting and delegating tickets while on-call
• Team meetings and presentations/learning sessions
About the team
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
- 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, CA, San Diego - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
