The AWS Compliance & Security Assurance Engineering team is in the business of building customer trust. We are responsible for scaling AWSs ability to exceed the security and compliance expectations of our regulators auditors and customers globally. We design and build services that stand up to the scrutiny of external regulators and inspection by AWSs most security-sensitive customers. We are a multidisciplinary team comprising software engineers security engineers technical product/program managers data engineers and compliance specialists. If you are looking for an opportunity to think big invent experiment build and have a material impact on cloud security and compliance this is it.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our team you will influence projects or initiatives that span across multiple products and/or teams you will build and own internal services that identify and monitor security/compliance-relevant attributes of key infrastructure streamline and scale execution of security and compliance audits/examinations of AWS services and expand our ability to continuously monitor key security functions. You will demonstrate a high bar for engineer excellence lead the technical strategy and technical advisory for adjacent teams. You will write code that works at Amazon scale mentor SDEs contribute to solving complex engineering problems as well as business problems and understand and improve our agile processes to help us evolve a vision of compliance and security at AWS.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
Write high-quality code with thorough test coverage as you mentor other developers so they can learn from your CRs.
Find out what it takes to engineer systems for Amazon Scale.
Realize that making software work is just the start and you value talking about cattle-vs-pets continuous resiliency and capacity testing.
Truly care about designing highly available secure distributed systems of microservices then you will make them even better by consulting with peers and technical leaders.
Work on Agile projects that have high visibility while making continuous improvements to planning design implementation testing and operations processes.
Have full ownership and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.
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
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5 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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