Software Development Engineer

Who you are

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Minimum of three years (non internship) software development experience in a combination of any of the following languages: Java, C#, Python, or Rust. TypeScript is a plus
• Minimum of three years experience working with Linux operating system development
• This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience working in backend software engineering applications that process large datasets such as network flow logs or security telemetry

What the job involves

• As a Software Development Engineer on our team, you’ll help build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure, including advanced persistent threats
• You’ll work with security engineers, data scientists, and other software development engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at a massive scale
• Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and help preserve our customers’ trust in us
• You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats – not many teams can say that!
• We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers
• We want someone who will help us amplify the positive and inclusive team culture we’ve been building
• As a Software Development Engineer, you will leverage Amazon technology (Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, etc.) to solve AWS Security problems at staggering scale
• You will raise the bar on our software architecture and development practices
• You will share ownership of our operational excellence, ensuring our system is properly tuned and has appropriate alarms for warning or error conditions
• You will help drive our working backwards processes, inventing and simplifying on behalf of our customers
• You will build security detections that identify specific security issues and automatically help customers reduce their risk through network and security controls
• This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months
• You will also have specific on-call responsibilities to support the European Sovereign Cloud
• 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
• A day in the life:
• Collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to build automated security detection and mitigation workflows
• Design scalable architectures for low-latency, big data processing
• Improve the observability, performance, and efficiency of our existing systems
• Raise the bar for testing, repeatability, automation, and operational excellence
• Mentor and develop teammates, both technically and professionally
• Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technologies