SDE, AWS Security, Optics

Description

Come and build innovative services that secure the foundation of our cloud from security threats. The Amazon Optics team builds and manages services used by AWS employees to secure our physical sites, allowing customers to protect AWS locations and preserving the trust all AWS users have in us. You will work daily with other software development engineers who are passionate about building essential tools to keep AWS sites secure.

The services you build are used worldwide to secure assets for every single AWS customer.

Our team provides solutions where “can’t be done” isn’t considered an answer. We take on the impossible and find creative solutions, stretching yourself, growing personal knowledge, and helping others achieve. You will automate away operational efficiencies for the team and customers, be challenged to solve complex architectural problems with extensible, scalable solutions, and simplify the design wherever possible. You will work with multiple products deployed to every AWS region using AWS services in a fully IaC deployment environment, owning design, development, testing, and deployment end‑to‑end.

You will join a team that values strong intuition but backs it with metrics and other data sources to validate assumptions.

• You design software solutions that enable new features or improve software, aligning your designs with your team's long‑term architectural strategy.
• You work on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks, bringing clarity to problems and identifying simple designs for solutions.
• You are active in the code review process on your team, providing meaningful feedback to others, including seniors.

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. You’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, training, and career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices xible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture, allowing you to support both the workplace and home.

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 2+ 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 full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during…