Software Development Engineer II US Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security

Are you driven by new technology and enjoy building software to solve complex business problems Would you like to work on a variety of high impact and businesscritical projects in a fastpaced collaborative inclusive and iterative delivery environment If so this is an excellent opportunity for you!

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II who has experience building innovative and highvolume applications. This is a high visibility team where youll make a direct positive impact on the customer experience. We are excited about our roadmap that involves building technology for new business initiatives with the opportunity to work on groundsup product development. Additionally on this team you will interface with key stakeholders who use our platform to access internal AWS services in order to address key security relevant issues.
A qualified candidate for this role enjoys building highly scalable faulttolerant distributed systems using cloudnative architectural patterns. If you are interested in building services that allow AWS Security business to reach its innovative goals then we look forward to connecting with you.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.



Key job responsibilities
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture youll create metrics implement automation and other improvements and resolve the root cause of software defects. Youll also:
Build highimpact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
Participate in design discussions code review and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Work crossfunctionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
Work in a startuplike development environment where youre always working on the most important stuff.

About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Here at AWS we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employeeled affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on worklife balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and wellbalanced lifeboth in and outside of work.


3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
3 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 stack development experience
Current active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

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
3 years of computer science fundamentals (objectoriented design data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis) experience

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