Systems Development Engineer Amazon Foundational Security Services

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 Amazons 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. Our team is looking for a highly motivated Systems Development Engineer in Amazon Security who will raise the security bar by delivering industrybest security services. You should be somebody who enjoys inventing and simplifying around complex security challenges obsesses over the customer experience and feels strongly about delivering results. You should be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways. We do not desire to simply produce good software here at Amazon Security... we want to produce disruptive industryleading innovations.

Key job responsibilities
Each day hundreds of thousands of developers and customers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud and the Amazon retail site. The Amazon Security team owns security for all of these services offered by Amazon Security including EC2 S3 and many others as well as the security of our global retail sites. This team is an EUbased Operations team integrated with Software Development teams supporting Amazon Foundational Security Services to provide our customers with secure by default security services. We dive deep into security technologies such as new access control design patterns identity security services access control authorization authentication and life cycle management to support our customers as Amazon continues to scale and grow. We are looking for software professionals from diverse backgrounds who are creative problem solvers and passionate about delivering solutions that improve both user experience and security. We are a global team and have a culture of learning from each other. We dont expect people to join our team knowing everything. We want people who are excited to learn to challenge the status quo and who are energized by building highly scalable and available systems on a global scale.

A day in the life
Amazon has a fastpaced environment we Work Hard Have Fun Make History. Our team works with users to design new security features deploy software through large automated systems and operationally support security software. Youll look for new approaches to automate fixes for operational issues and use Amazon Security services to solve design problems. Our team also puts a high value on worklife balance. A healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.

About the team
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 Amazons 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 its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness.

Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking storage operating systems)
Experience (noninternship) in professional software development
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby

Experience with PowerShell (preferred) Python Ruby or Java
Communication and problemsolving skills across languages
Experience operating services in AWS
Experience actively mentoring junior engineers
Experience with IAM security services

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