Senior Internet-Scale Security Systems Engineer

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon's Shield team within AWS Infrastructure Services seeks engineers to design, build, and operate internet-scale distributed systems that defend AWS infrastructure and millions of customers from sophisticated DDoS attacks. You will architect high-throughput systems, drive scalable mitigations, and guide decisions balancing scale, speed, and reliability in a global cloud platform.

Strong collaboration with software, hardware, and security experts is essential as you own critical security

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and operation of internet-scale distributed systems that defend AWS infrastructure and millions of customers from sophisticated DDoS attacks.
• Architect and build high-throughput systems that process and protect traffic representing a substantial portion of global internet activity.
• Drive technical solutions for scaling challenges that few engineering teams ever encounter—handling traffic volumes and attack patterns at the boundaries of distributed systems design.
• Design creative, forward-looking mitigations in an ambiguous, fast-moving threat landscape where attacks evolve daily and solutions must anticipate what doesn't yet exist.
• Own high-stakes engineering decisions that balance massive scale, rapid iteration, and effective mitigation while ensuring customer traffic flows safely and reliably.
• Mentor and raise the bar for engineering excellence across the team through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of software, hardware, network engineers, and security experts to deliver the highest standards of perimeter protection.
• Drive operational excellence and reliability for systems defending some of the world's most critical cloud infrastructure

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

Mentor / tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon's Shield team within AWS Infrastructure Services seeks engineers to design, build, and operate internet-scale distributed systems that defend AWS infrastructure and millions of customers from sophisticated DDoS attacks. You will architect high-throughput systems, drive scalable mitigations, and guide decisions balancing scale, speed, and reliability in a global cloud platform.

Strong collaboration with software, hardware, and security experts is essential as you own critical security