Cloud Security SDE: Detect & Mitigate Threats at Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help build and manage security services that detect and mitigate threats across AWS infrastructure at massive scale.

You will collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to design low-latency architectures, improve observability, and raise the bar for testing and automation while mentoring teammates and exploring new technologies. This role offers strong benefits including RSUs and health insurance.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer experience
• Knowledge of Python and/or C++ programming

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to build automated security detection and mitigation workflows
• Design scalable architectures for low-latency, big data processing
• Improve the observability, performance, and efficiency of our existing systems
• Raise the bar for testing, repeatability, automation, and operational excellence
• Mentor and develop teammates, both technically and professionally
• Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technologies

Skills

Design patterns

Reliability

Scalability

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS Services (EC2/Lambda/S3/DynamoDB/SQS)

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help build and manage security services that detect and mitigate threats across AWS infrastructure at massive scale.

You will collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to design low-latency architectures, improve observability, and raise the bar for testing and automation while mentoring teammates and exploring new technologies. This role offers strong benefits including RSUs and health insurance.