Sr. Software Developer Engineer, AWS Security

$151,300 - $261,500/Yr

Amazon.com - Seattle, WA

- Senior

Seattle, WA

General Merchandise Retailers

About the position

At Amazon Security, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world's most beloved brands - customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Amazon Security is a multidisciplinary team comprised of software engineers, security engineers, program managers, data engineers, and compliance specialists. If you are looking for an opportunity to think big, invent, experiment, build, and have a material impact on cloud security and compliance, this is it. As a Sr. SDE, your role is pivotal in maintaining the robust and innovative solutions of our team. You will work on complex challenges in existing and new development initiatives, focusing on areas with ambiguity. Your goal is to design and develop software systems that are secure, maintainable, scalable, and extendable. You will develop an understanding of the business impact of your systems and make responsible trade-offs between the short-term operational needs and long-term business objectives. Amazon and Amazon Web Services are growing at an unprecedented rate. To keep up with that growth, we are in constant need of innovative processes and automation solutions. Your work will have a company-wide impact, affecting thousands of developers and teams, and enabling us to launch and scale our services rapidly.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, efficient, and testable production code.
• Build highly available, secure distributed systems at Amazon scale.
• Be an end-to-end technical owner of the services you build, including development, testing and support.
• Lead the planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of an Agile team.
• Be part of growing, tight-knit team within a wider community of experienced and knowledgeable engineers.
• Design and develop software systems that are secure, maintainable, scalable, and extendable.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and arrangements.
• Endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources.
• Work-life harmony.