Software Development Engineer AWS Proactive Security Detective Tooling

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Proactive Security Detective Tooling (PSDT) team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who has a strong passion for securityatscale. You will work on a team dedicated to building services that discover and audit AWSowned websites for misconfigurations that could lead to security issues. Youll work on solving challenging webbased problems at scale including crawling fuzzing user journeys and CI/CD integration. Youll be at the forefront of web security.

The Proactive Security Detective Tooling team is responsible for the security and availability of all of the services offered by AWS including EC2 S3 and more than 100 others. We develop the tools that keep AWS safe from malicious actors preventing detecting and mitigating security events. We work closely with our Application Security Threat Intel Security Operations and Security Analyst teams to drive security improvements across AWS. This is a high visibility team that solves security challenges at a massive scale through automation.

Our team deals with immense quantities of data pushing the envelope on scale and various advanced analytical techniques to find and mitigate security threats. Youll be expected to develop robust large scale distributed systems for processing data and to provide technical leadership to other engineers to do the same. While you may not be a security expert just yet you have a passion for solving security challenges in innovative ways. Youll develop a broad and deep understanding of the overall AWS security posture and develop many of the core technology components to improve and scale.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will
Be a technical leader that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate.
Own drive and deliver software solutions
Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
Develop relationships with internal and external partner teams to move fast.
Help establish the longterm success strategy for your systems development best practices and operational excellence processes.
Collaborate with peers to ensure your strategies are in alignment with the rest of the development teams.
Develop junior and new team members by mentoring them on multiple fronts.

A day in the life
The mission of the Website Security team within AWS PSDT is to ensure all websites meet the AWS Security bar. This requires building large distributed systems that are capable of discovering and auditing internallyowned websites for potential misconfigurations. This team also develops solutions that drive remediation of website misconfigurations at AWSscale ensuring that AWS remains secure for our customers.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.

Training & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
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3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience

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