Software Development Engineer II, Security Response and Engineering

Join our team creating innovative solutions that help AWS developers build secure systems without sacrificing speed of this role youll design and develop complex features for an AI-based security system that works like having a security expert embedded directly in development teams. Youll collaborate with scientists and security experts to build tools that provide continuous feedback to developers right in their IDE allowing them to quickly identify and address security concerns in their designs and code. Your work will directly enable AWS developers to build more ambitious products faster than ever before while maintaining the high security standards that AWS customers depend on.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop features for an AI-based security system that provides continuous feedback on code security within developers IDEs ensuring developers can quickly update designs to remove security issues
- Work collaboratively with scientists and security experts to build trusted security guidance systems for AWS developers ensuring high quality and operational excellence
- Contribute significantly to the full software development lifecycle including scoping design code testing deployment and maintenance of the teams software
- Actively participate in code reviews providing meaningful feedback to team members and ensuring security best practices are followed
- Engage directly with development teams across AWS to understand their needs gather feedback and implement improvements that enhance the developer experience while maintaining security standards

A day in the life
Your day begins with a meeting with development teams who are actively using your AI security tool. You listen to their feedback and take notes on how the system is working in real environments. After the meeting youll spend time designing improvements based on that feedback focusing on making security guidance more intuitive and actionable. Later youll write code to implement these changes carefully considering security implications and developer experience. Youll also review designs and code from teammates providing thoughtful feedback to ensure quality and security standards are maintained across all features.

About the team
Our team is building an AI-based security system that functions like having a security expert embedded within development teams across AWS. The system provides developers with continuous feedback on their code directly within their IDE enabling them to quickly identify and address security concerns before they become issues. Were focused on creating tools that make it significantly easier for developers to build security into their systems while still delivering innovative products to customers quickly. By combining expertise in AI security and software development were helping to maintain the high security standards that AWS customers rely on while enabling faster more ambitious product development. This is a high impact and highly visible 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.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually