Software Development Engineer, Veritas

Amazon security (AmSec) is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join a team of highly skilled individuals working on our initiatives in resource and application discovery within Amazon security. Our product Veritas is a foundational service within Amazon security that discovers all the resources owned by Amazon and the interconnections between them. This knowledge is then used for several security initiatives like security reviews threat modeling and detection access control and incident response.
In this role you will have the exceptional opportunity to be a part of the foundational team that helps enable significant security objectives in AmSec. As a Software Development Engineer your responsibilities will encompass designing building and scaling both our front-end framework and back-end APIs and services. This position demands a candidate who can think strategically and analytically about business and product challenges and who possesses the ability to integrate compelling value propositions into software development.
Your role will require strong cross-organizational collaboration as you will work closely with engineers and leaders to drive product vision and lead technical implementation efforts. The successful candidate will demonstrate a unique blend of technical leadership and deep engineering expertise combined with the ability to dive into the details to guide engineering decisions. This position offers the chance to engage and influence a diverse team playing a key role in shaping the future of our product and business.
You will partner with with other Product teams and Engineering teams to evaluate and develop security services and infrastructure. If you enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the strategic direction of a large global organization this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity. You will join a diverse team of product owners software engineers machine learning experts data engineers and data scientists working on a wide range of technical challenges across the full stack. You will drive software innovations to improve performance and cost.


Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the engineering team you will have influence on our product strategy by helping define the product features refine system architecture and spearhead best practices that enable a quality product.

A commitment to teamwork hustle and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.
You will heavily influence design and implement significant portions of critical-path code work independently and collaborate on software design reviews with senior engineers to ensure software is scalable performant and maintainable for the long term.

You will help deliver high quality software that is secure testable maintainable efficient and has little to no defects.

Creating a highly stable foundational service requires exceptional technical expertise a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.

You will focus on operational excellence including analyzing the overall health and performance of the system such as the operational management of the graph database cluster performance of our daily ETL and vended APIs.

You should enjoy working on complex system software is customer-centric and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.


A day in the life
The bulk of an average day is centered around designing and building features to enhance existing applications.
Otherwise other elements of a day that happen are:
Working on ad-hoc requests and bug fixes
Participating in doc reviews with product managers and stakeholders
Supporting and delegating tickets while on-call
Team meetings and presentations/learning sessions

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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 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.

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.


- 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
- 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA San Diego - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually