Cloud Security Engineer — AWS WAF & Bot Defense

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Seattle seeks a Software Development Engineer for AWS WAF Bot Control and Fraud Prevention. You will build and operate distributed services across CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB, ensuring secure, scalable solutions.

You will own architecture decisions, collaborate with customers, and drive end-to-end delivery from design to deployment in a fast-paced AWS environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Building globally-scaled microservices across AWS Regions and CloudFront edge locations.
• Processing millions of requests with single-digit millisecond latency.
• Designing highly available systems that never compromise on security.
• Owning the complete customer experience and per-request rule processing for CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB.
• Lead design and architecture decisions for new features and services.
• Research and innovate solutions in uncharted problem spaces.
• Interact directly with customers to gather requirements and validate solutions.
• Build, test, deploy, and operationally support production systems.
• Influence the technical direction of AWS WAF and future security services.

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Object Oriented Design

Software development

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Seattle seeks a Software Development Engineer for AWS WAF Bot Control and Fraud Prevention. You will build and operate distributed services across CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB, ensuring secure, scalable solutions.

You will own architecture decisions, collaborate with customers, and drive end-to-end delivery from design to deployment in a fast-paced AWS environment.