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Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

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3 days ago
London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage AWS services that detect cybersecurity threats and automate their mitigation.
  • Collaborate with security engineers and data scientists to develop scalable security detection and mitigation workflows.
  • Design low-latency architectures for big-data processing and improve system observability, performance, and efficiency.
  • Develop security detections and automatically reduce customer risk through network and security controls.
  • Maintain operational excellence through testing, automation, alarms, fault tolerance, and root-cause resolution.
  • Mentor teammates technically and professionally and advocate for new technologies.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, typically one week every two months, to resolve production issues.

Requirements

  • Professional, non-internship software development experience is required.
  • Experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling, is required.
  • Non-internship software development experience with Java, C#, Python, or Rust is required; TypeScript is a plus.
  • Experience with Linux operating system development is required.
  • Preferred qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Preferred qualifications include full software development lifecycle experience covering coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred qualifications include backend engineering experience with applications processing large datasets such as network flow logs or security telemetry.

Benefits

  • Access to knowledge-sharing, training, and career-advancing resources.
  • Work-life harmony and flexibility-focused working culture.
  • Inclusive culture with ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion events and learning experiences.
  • On-call responsibility, typically one week every two months, with an emphasis on fault-tolerant systems and collaborative incident resolution.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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