Software Development Engineer, Amazon Foundation Security Services

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Diego, CA, USA

Ever wonder how it feels to have hundreds of thousands of users counting on you to keep Amazon secure without slowing anyone down? Amazon Security's Access Review team is the group for you! We own the systems 250,000+ Amazonians use to review and right-size the access they hold across Teams, Bindles, Hostclasses, and Permission Groups. We sit at the intersection of security, compliance, and developer productivity, connected to nearly every part of Amazon's worldwide service-oriented architecture. Whether you're passionate about building highly scalable and reliable systems in the cloud, or you're a software developer who likes to solve interesting and complex business problems, Access Review is the place for you.

Our mission is to enforce industry-leading least privilege at Amazon scale: every person and service should have exactly the access they need, and nothing more. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to design and build large-scale, high-impact Access Management systems with company-wide reach, and to help lead the next chapter of that mission, applying AI and machine learning to the hardest problem in the space, determining the right level of least-privilege access automatically. You will build the intelligence that surfaces unused and excessive permissions, recommends precise access decisions, and continuously drives the fleet toward least privilege with minimal human toil. There is ample opportunity to innovate and deliver outcomes that measurably reduce Amazon's security risk.

You will collaborate with the leadership team to drive key engineering and business decisions that shape the access experience for the entire Amazon developer community. You will contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle across multiple products, including design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, and operations.

Successful candidates for this position will have strong software engineering fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithms, data structures, and a good grasp of advanced systems concepts and design. Experience applying AI/ML to real-world problems is a plus, but not required, we'll help you grow into it. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and consistently deliver high-quality results. They need to really enjoy working closely with their peers within a group of very talented engineers and builders.

This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don't like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don't get paged for the same issue twice. Come build with us!

A day in the life

Our team is responsible for building and maintaining multiple services that are critical for access management across Amazon. You'll work with your teammates, peers in our organization, stakeholders and customers from all around the company to define the access management experience.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, 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.

Why Amazon Security?

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

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI 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.

Training & Career Growth

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

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic qualifications

- 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

- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience

- 1+ 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

- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ 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

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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