About this role
This role is located in Seattle, WA. At Amazon, security is job zero. Our team is responsible for inventing new security services and features that enable and automate security solutions at Amazon’s massive scale. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help innovate and build new services from the ground up that will make security and innovation simultaneous for Amazon product teams. Our team offers the opportunity for engineers to help define, design, build, and operate new services from end to end.
You will work on a small and dynamic team, collaborate with leading industry experts and gain experience building security services . Come build with us! Our team is looking for highly skilled software engineers, who ask lots of questions, and challenge the status quo. We are a team of out-of-the-box thinkers, who iterate quickly, and constantly raise the bar. If you like solving hard problems and doing work with a clear impact for our customers, you'll enjoy being a part of the team.
Key job responsibilities
- As an SDE II on the team, you will design, build, and operate the services that decide who can access what across Amazon's internal resources.
- Thousands of engineering teams depend on our systems every day for permissions, ownership, and authorization, so the work has to be correct, fast, and available.
In this role you will
- Own features and components from design through production. You'll write design docs, review them with senior engineers, implement them, and see them through deployment.
- Write clean, tested, maintainable code in Java and the other languages the team uses, and review your teammates' code to keep the bar high.
- Take part in the on-call rotation. You'll investigate production issues, find root causes, write correction-of-error documents, and make the fixes that stop problems from coming back.
- Work with customer teams who onboard to the platform. You'll understand their access-control needs and help shape APIs and features that meet them.
- Reduce operational load through automation, better alarms and dashboards, and self-service tools that cut down on manual tickets.
- Think about security in everything you build, because mistakes in authorization systems can expose data or lock teams out of their resources.
- Help with planning by breaking down projects, estimating work, and flagging risks early.
- Mentor junior engineers and interns, and help new teammates ramp up on the codebase and operations.
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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t 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 Amazon’s 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, it’s 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 We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer.
That’s why you’ll 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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.