Senior Software Engineer, Amazon

• Amazon Security is looking for a Software Development Engineer who is passionate about building scaled software supporting the high-tempo needs of security operations at Amazon
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

Desirable

• Our team's mission is to build the best worldwide end-to-end security findings management solution for security operation teams
• Our systems/products are critical path and used by security engineers daily in their quest to defend Amazon and its customers against internal and external threats. We support our customers with high quality UX, automation, resilient services, and more
• Come help us drive best practices, operational and engineering excellence across the organization, and raise the bar for Amazon security!
• You will lead the technical vision and architecture for mission critical systems
• You will partner with the leadership team to drive key engineering and business decisions that will influence and impact security across Amazon
• You will work with other members of our growing team to investigate approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility of ideas
• You will write high quality distributed software systems using AWS technologies
• You will take an active part in leading the design, development and operations of software/tooling used to keep Amazon’s customers safe
• You will ship software in a fast-paced environment and collaborate on new approaches to building and serving Amazon’s security
• The Amazon Defensive Security Organization protects and defends customer trust by ensuring resilience to information security threats. We strive to understand our attack surface and threats, respond with adaptive defenses based on risk
• Software Engineering is a core component that helps us achieve our mission through building critical software products and platforms at scale that allow security professionals at Amazon to focus on new and unknown threats with speed, accuracy, and efficiency

• This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site