2 months ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build systems that determine why vulnerabilities persist across the AWS host fleet and drive automatic remediation.
- Develop detection that identifies hosts unreached by patching automation and routes findings to owning teams.
- Prototype against fleet-scale security data and take successful solutions into production.
- Own production services, including on-call, alarming, and operational metrics.
- Partner with AWS service teams and security platform teams to reduce the fleet’s attack surface.
- Set engineering practices and own the systems built for the growing team.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: at least 3 years covering the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: experience designing and owning systems consumed by other teams, including data models and interface contracts.
- Preferred: experience operating production systems with on-call, alarming, and operational metrics.
- Preferred: experience building production data-intensive systems with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark, EMR, or Glue.
- Preferred: experience with data lakes or warehouse services such as Iceberg, Athena, or Redshift and strong SQL skills on large datasets.
- Preferred: experience taking a prototype to a production service.
- Preferred: interest in or exposure to security engineering, vulnerability management, or large-scale fleet operations.
Benefits
- Seattle, Washington work location.
- Flexible work hours and arrangements supporting work-life balance.
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance and mental health support resources, a medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Amazon offers sign-on payments and restricted stock units in addition to base salary.
Tech Stack
About Amazon
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.