Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Security Platform Engineering

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to enhance security solutions across its vast ecosystem. In this role, you will tackle complex challenges by designing and implementing scalable logging systems that support massive data volumes. Collaborating closely with product owners, you'll ensure seamless integration and enhance customer experiences through innovative features. This position demands a detail-oriented problem solver passionate about delivering high-quality solutions within a high-performance team. Join a forward-thinking company committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace while prioritizing customer trust and security.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals and experience in software development.
• Experience with modern programming languages and AWS solutions.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building solutions for mission-critical systems.
• Delivering scalable logging solutions and collaborating with product owners.

Skills

Systems Engineering Fundamentals

Software Development

Design Patterns

Networking

Storage Systems

Operating Systems

Programming (C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby)

Problem-Solving

Tools

AWS

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Security Platform Engineering

Job ID: 2784647 | Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited

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.

The Amazon Security Platform Engineering team develops scalable self-service systems to collect security relevant logs from internal and third party systems. The scalable data collection services developed by this team provide seamless integration with internal tooling to ensure the logs collected are helping to drive security decisions protecting the business.

We are looking for a Systems Development Engineer who is excited about designing and building solutions to solve challenging problems for mission critical systems that protect Amazon and our customers' data. In Amazon 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 Amazon, 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 scale. In 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, aid 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.

This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don’t 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 don’t get paged for the same issue twice.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems).
2. Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
3. Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
4. Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering.
5. Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment.
2. Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
3. Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.
4. Experience building services using AWS products.
5. Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.