Software Development Engineer II Amazon Security Platform Engineering - Query Platform

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

Herndon VA USA

Come work on our Amazon Security team to protect Amazon and our customers!

If you thrive in a fastpaced innovative environment and are interested in pushing the boundaries of whats possible with big data cloud computing and security analytics Amazon Security Platform Engineerings Query Platform team is the place for you. We support a suite of services and products to query petabytescale datasets efficiently and enable critical security use cases such as incident response security analytics threathunting and lowlatency detections. Since our systems are foundational to the Amazon Security ecosystem youll also have the opportunity to learn about various Amazon business areas including ecommerce Prime Alexa and AWS.

Successful candidates for this position will possess:
Strong software engineering fundamentals including expertise in objectoriented design algorithms and data structures
Experience building and operating scalable faulttolerant distributed systems
Proficiency in Scala Java or Python with a solid understanding of multithreading and memory management
Knowledge of bigdata compute engines such as Apache Spark Trino Flink and open table formats like Apache Iceberg
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Selfmotivation and the ability to deliver highquality results in a fastpaced environment




Key job responsibilities
Build and support Amazon Securitys Query Platform which consists of a suite of services for query scheduling routing auditing and engine built on Apache Spark.
Modernize security intelligence platforms data catalog and governance services to provide customers with rule based access controls and finegrained data access.
Innovate and build data triggered job orchestration services to enable lowlatency job on security data.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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