Security-Focused Software Engineer, Devices & Services

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 158,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Devices & Services Security group to design, build, and deploy large-scale security tooling for Amazon devices and services. The role emphasizes ownership of major tooling, roadmaps, delivering from scratch, and mentoring peers in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers, ensuring latency, security, and usability are considered throughout development, with a focus on protecting customer

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience.

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze business and functional requirements, and translate business requirements into technical design specifications.
• Write high-quality, efficient, testable code and recommend improvements in development, maintenance, and system standards, and contribute to software documentation.
• Design, develop and deploy medium to large software solutions
• Be responsible for technical problem solving, meeting product objectives, and developing best practices
• Serve as an essential technical resource in the full development cycle.
• Analyze security data using analytics
• Mentor junior team members technically
• Work in an agile development environment.

Skills

C#/C++/Java/Perl

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Devices & Services Security group to design, build, and deploy large-scale security tooling for Amazon devices and services. The role emphasizes ownership of major tooling, roadmaps, delivering from scratch, and mentoring peers in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers, ensuring latency, security, and usability are considered throughout development, with a focus on protecting customer