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.
What do you know about protecting sensitive data What about finegrained access control (FGAC) on Big Data Or attributebased access control (ABAC) and context based authorization
In Security Products we build Access Policy Management systems to enable all Amazon teams to apply FGAC to their sensitive data. We build products that apply context based authorization to solve the problem of overpermissioning.
In our newly created organization we have a rare opportunity to engage with multiple Amazon organizations and groups of experienced tech leaders to build products with impact at an impressive scale (hundreds of thousands of services).
We are looking for enthusiastic Software Development Engineers with strong analytical and problem solving skills who will participate in full development cycle for mission critical systems. You will work with technologies and tools on innovative and sophisticated features collaborate with your team and its leadership to drive key engineering and business decisions that will enhance the Amazons security posture. You will contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle including design implementation documentation testing and operations.
Key job responsibilities
You document what your teams software does; how it is constructed tested and operated; how secure it is; and how it fits into the bigger picture. When new teammates join you actively train them in these points.
Your work focuses on delivering software features and improvements to major portions of your teams software. This is not just new software but often includes refactoring and deprecation work.
You design software solutions to enable new features or improve software. You may still require guidance from your teams leadership to ensure your designs are in alignment with your teams longterm architectural strategy.
You work on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You bring clarity to problems and identify simple designs for solutions.
You are a significant contributor to the full software development lifecycle including scoping design code testing deployment and maintenance of the teams software.
You are active in the code review process on your team providing meaningful feedback to others including those who are more senior.
Your work positively impacts the software quality customer experience and maintainability of your teams product(s). You are starting to balance customer requirements with team requirements.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
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
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.
Experience (noninternship) in professional software development
Experience in professional noninternship software development
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
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