Software Development Engineer, AWS Infrastructure Security

The AWS Infrastructure Security team builds tools and services for the monitoring and responsing to malicious activity on the Amazon internal network. We collect data from all parts of Amazons worldwide service-oriented infrastructure.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who is excited about designing and building solutions to solve challenging problems for mission critical systems that protect Amazon and our customer AWS Infrastructure Security our challenges are broad and deep -- we build flexible secure scalable high-performance and robust tools and services. You will help implement operate and improve current services as well as build new features to improve the customer experience and make it easier/faster/cheaper for the customer to get what they need.

In AWS we obsess over our customers and their trust is our first priority. Trust is earned by building a highly respected security service to tackle new challenges at a large this role you will deliver high quality scalable logging solutions to support Petabytes of data deployed around the world. You will collaborate with product owners and customers to deliver the best features using resources and technologies efficiently. You will also help to engage other teams to onboard their services for data ingestion into the platform aide in the tooling for analysis of the data as well as transforming the data when needed to make it useful. You are detail driven and have excellent problem solving abilities. The successful candidate is passionate about delivering extensible on-time solutions and has experience working within a high-performance team.

On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.


Key job responsibilities
The AWS Infrastructure Security team is seeking an innovative high-energy and customer-obsessed Software Development Engineer to build critical security systems at scale.

We value performance simplicity and scalability in our your day-to-day work you will focus on the development of solutions to collect and process security logs from a wide range of internal and third party systems.

A day in the life
Design implement test deploy and support innovative solutions to improve service performance durability cost and security.

Use data to measure success and take responsibility for the quality of your service and strive to prevent faults from impacting our customers.

Influence and partner with internal teams to successfully deliver on behalf of our customers.

Develop simple repeatable processes that are well documented.

Learn from others and coach hire and develop team members to achieve their best.

About the team
At AWS Infrastructure Security 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 the internal Amazon network. 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.

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
- Experience in computer architecture or experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience building and operating a cloud-based architecture
- Experience in managing and troublshooting network or experience in Linux and Networking protocols and experience with network troubleshooting tools (telnet test-netconnection tracert tracetcp iperf ntttcp dig and packet capture tools)
- Experience with security equipment such as intrusion detection devices access control systems etc.

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