Platform Engineer: Automated Security Evaluation at Scale

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon is building a security platform at scale. Join a brand-new team that evaluates every code change tens of thousands of engineers ship, deciding how much scrutiny is needed and handling common cases automatically.

You'll own features on a greenfield platform end-to-end, work with senior engineers on design and with security engineers on risk, and ship code that reduces security reviews to zero minutes rather than weeks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience on existing or new systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi‑tiered software applications.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate features of the platform that evaluates code changes for security risk and routes the ones that need a human.
• Own features across full lifecycle from customer needs to production operation and documentation.
• Write code with high standards for correctness, testing, security, and operability as the system grows.
• Build and tune automated evaluation logic with security engineers.
• Partner with senior engineers on design, clarifying requirements and tradeoffs.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Take part in operational support and on-call, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes.
• Document how software works, how it's operated, and how it fits the larger system.
• Identify improvements like flaky tests or slow paths.

Skills

3+ years software development

2+ years design or architecture

1+ years SDE experience

OO design experience

Programming languages: C#, C++, Java,/

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Foreign equivalent accepted

Job description

Amazon is building a security platform at scale. Join a brand-new team that evaluates every code change tens of thousands of engineers ship, deciding how much scrutiny is needed and handling common cases automatically.

You'll own features on a greenfield platform end-to-end, work with senior engineers on design and with security engineers on risk, and ship code that reduces security reviews to zero minutes rather than weeks.