Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Security Platform Engineering

Amazon Data Services UK Limited; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Security is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to design scalable security systems that enhance customer trust and provide robust solutions for critical systems. This role is dedicated to delivering high-quality logging and security solutions while integrating with various teams and technologies, ensuring a streamlined customer experience.

Benefits

Training & Career Growth resources

Mentorship programs

Flexible working culture

Qualifications

• Experience designing or architecting systems.
• Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems.
• Hands-on systems engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, deploy and support innovative solutions.
• Develop simple, repeatable processes that are well documented.
• On-call responsibilities to ensure systems are fault tolerant.

Skills

Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals

Professional software development

Experience in programming languages (C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby)

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Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Security Platform Engineering, London

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Client:

Amazon Data Services UK Limited

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job Description:

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 develop 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, 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.

Key job responsibilities
The Amazon Security Platform Engineering team is seeking an innovative, high-energy and customer-obsessed System Development Engineer to build critical security systems at scale.
We value performance, simplicity, and scalability in our designs. In your day-to-day work you will focus on the automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand.

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.

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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Mentorship & 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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