Job Information
Amazon Software Development Engineer II, Security Response and Engineering in Seattle, Washington
Description
Join our team creating innovative solutions that help AWS developers build secure systems without sacrificing speed of delivery. In this role, you'll design and develop complex features for an AI-based security system that works like having a security expert embedded directly in development teams. You'll collaborate with scientists and security experts to build tools that provide continuous feedback to developers right in their IDE, allowing them to quickly identify and address security concerns in their designs and code. Your work will directly enable AWS developers to build more ambitious products faster than ever before, while maintaining the high security standards that AWS customers depend on.
Key job responsibilities
Design and develop features for an AI-based security system that provides continuous feedback on code security within developers' IDEs, ensuring developers can quickly update designs to remove security issues
Work collaboratively with scientists and security experts to build trusted security guidance systems for AWS developers, ensuring high quality and operational excellence
Contribute significantly to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code, testing, deployment, and maintenance of the team's software
Actively participate in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to team members and ensuring security best practices are followed
Engage directly with development teams across AWS to understand their needs, gather feedback, and implement improvements that enhance the developer experience while maintaining security standards
A day in the life
Your day begins with a meeting with development teams who are actively using your AI security tool. You listen to their feedback and take notes on how the system is working in real environments. After the meeting, you'll spend time designing improvements based on that feedback, focusing on making security guidance more intuitive and actionable. Later, you'll write code to implement these changes, carefully considering security implications and developer experience. You'll also review designs and code from teammates, providing thoughtful feedback to ensure quality and security standards are maintained across all features.
About the team
Our team is building an AI-based security system that functions like having a security expert embedded within development teams across AWS. The system provides developers with continuous feedback on their code directly within their IDE, enabling them to quickly identify and address security concerns before they become issues. We're focused on creating tools that make it significantly easier for developers to build security into their systems while still delivering innovative products to customers quickly. By combining expertise in AI, security, and software development, we're helping to maintain the high security standards that AWS customers rely on while enabling faster, more ambitious product development. This is a high impact and highly visible 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.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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
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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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