Software Development Engineer, Amazon

• Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland
• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Desirable

• As a Software Development Engineer on our team, you will create innovative services that protect our cloud from security threats
• As an AWS Security Software Development Engineer (SDE), you’ll help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cyber threats across all of Amazon’s infrastructure
• You’ll work with data scientists, security engineers, and other software development engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at massive scale
• Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and preserves our customers’ trust in us. You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats – not many teams can say that!
• Our team is distributed, though most of the team is located in Maryland and Virginia. We generally keep core business hours of 9:30 EST - 4:30EST, while allowing flexibility as needed. At AWS Security, it’s not about clocking hours, it’s about delivering results
• This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months
• Be a leader and role-model for Amazon LPs
• Design scalable architectures for low-latency data processing
• Collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to build automated security detections and mitigation workflows
• Improve the observability, performance, and efficiency of our current systems
• Raise the bar for testing, repeatability, and automation
• Mentor less experienced engineers on mental models, decision making, technical skills, and leadership principles