Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Security

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA

The Amazon Security Enterprise Protection team builds tools and services for the monitoring and response to malicious activity on the Amazon internal network. We collect, process, and analyze data from all parts of Amazon's worldwide infrastructure to identify and reduce risks to Amazon.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who is excited about designing and building solutions to solve challenging problems for mission critical systems that protect Amazon and our customer data. In Amazon Security, our challenges are broad and deep -- we build flexible, secure, scalable, high-performance and robust tools and services. You will help implement, operate, and improve current services as well as build new features to improve the customer experience and make it easier/faster/cheaper for the customer to get what they need.

At Amazon, we obsess over our customers, and their trust is our first priority. Trust is earned by building a highly respected security service to tackle new challenges at a large scale. In this role, you will deliver high quality, scalable products that are deployed to our internal services around the world. You will collaborate with product owners and customers to deliver the best features, using resources and technologies efficiently. You will work with stakeholders to define solutions that scale and satisfy a wide variety of security needs. You are detail driven and have excellent problem solving abilities. The successful candidate is passionate about delivering extensible, on-time solutions and has experience working within a high-performance team.

On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.

- 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 modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

- 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
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Experience leading or mentoring junior engineers
- Experience with designing and building event-driven architectures
- Experience with test-driven development.
- Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role.
- Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
- Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD, source control, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience with developing software in an Agile framework.
- Experience building solutions using AWS infrastructure.

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