Software Development Engineer, IAM, Authorization Management

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.

What do you know about protecting sensitive data? What about fine-grained access control (FGAC) on Big Data? Or attribute-based access control (ABAC) and context based authorization? What about catching bad actors that are abusing Amazon services? Or attacks that could potentially lead to a widespread data breach? Do you know how to generate activity-based intelligence (ABI) through anomaly detection?

In Security Products we build Access Policy Management systems to enable all Amazon teams to apply FGAC to their sensitive data. We build products that apply context based authorization to solve the problem of over-permissioning. We apply Machine Learning Techniques in our Monitored Access (MA) abuse detection program to preemptively detect and mitigate internal and external malicious actors. We do this to protect Amazon customer, seller, vendor and employee information across from constantly changing abuse actor behaviors and patterns.

In our newly created organization we have a rare opportunity to engage with multiple Amazon organizations and groups of experienced tech leaders to build products with impact at an impressive scale (hundreds of thousands of services).

We are looking for enthusiastic Software Development Engineers with strong analytical and problem solving skills, who will participate in full development cycle for mission critical systems. You will work with leading-edge technologies and tools, on innovative and sophisticated features, collaborate with your team and its leadership to drive key engineering and business decisions that will enhance the Amazon’s security posture. You will contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, implementation, documentation, testing and operations.

Key job responsibilities

- Your work focuses on delivering software features and improvements to major portions of your team’s software. This is not just new software but often includes refactoring and deprecation work.

- You work on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You bring clarity to problems and identify simple designs for solutions.

- You design software solutions to enable new features or improve software. You may still require guidance from your team’s leadership to ensure your designs are in alignment with your team’s long-term architectural strategy.

- You are a significant contributor to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code, testing, deployment and maintenance of the team's software.

- You are active in the code review process on your team, providing meaningful feedback to others, including those who are more senior.

- You document what your team’s software does; how it is constructed, tested, and operated; how secure it is; and how it fits into the bigger picture. When new teammates join, you actively train them in these points.

- Your work positively impacts the software quality, customer experience, and maintainability of your team’s product(s). You are starting to balance customer requirements with team requirements.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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 and 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.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience

- Experience in computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis)

- Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis;

- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java or others;

Preferred qualifications

- Experience building large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems.

- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations;

- Exposure to agile software development methodologies.

- Have previous experience in gathering business information and transform it in technical requirements. - Experience with secure systems and architecting applications that deal with sensitive information

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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