Software Development Engineer II Application Security Development

Amazon Security is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to help realize the technical vision for securityfocused builder tooling as part of Amazons continued mission to shift security left. This team builds and operates fullstack services and web applications providing builders the ability to design and threat model secure software for customers. The products built by this team are used across all of Amazons organizations and teams giving you the unique opportunity to have companywide influence and impact. In this role you will design and drive the development of scalable software systems and services enabling the design threat modeling and security review of software and hardware systems built at Amazon Additionally you will have the unique opportunity to partner closely with business and security teams and directly influence the software design process relied on by builders.

Key job responsibilities
Architect and develop full stack with both scalable backend services and interactive web applications.
Implement robust APIs and user experiences used directly by customers and integrated with by other software teams.
Design for high availability scalability extensibility and resiliency in the context of tools services and processes managed in AWS.
Evangelize software best practices and drive improvements to our customer products as user expectations evolve.
Collaborate with security and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions on behalf of customers.
Mentor other engineers on the team and promote best practices through software design development testing operational excellence and security.

About the team
About Amazon Security

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.

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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

Experience developing software solutions for security applications.
Demonstrated ability in delivering solutions using AWS products such as DynamoDB S3 SQS/SNS Lambda Elastic Search & EC2.
Experience building mobile or web frontends and applications using React or React Native or comparable frontend technologies.
Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy.
Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective and productive software engineers.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.