DESCRIPTION

Come join a creative team of Software Developers and Security Engineers dedicated to the security of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing environment for all of AWS customers. Since 2006, our team has been enabling our customers to bring great ideas to life in ways that aren’t possible in traditional IT environments. With AWS you can flexibly harness compute, storage, security, and other services from across the globe as your business demands them.

Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud. They harness the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. The AWS Security team owns security for all of these services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, Lambda, and more than 150 others. As a senior Software Development Engineer, you will help us design and build tools that keeps AWS secure. Our team deals with immense quantities of resources across huge distributed systems, pushing the envelope on scale and advanced analytical techniques to find and mitigate security threats. This is a high visibility team that addresses important security challenges in AWS. You will engage with other teams across AWS to help secure their products.

While you may not be a security expert just yet, in this role you’ll develop a broad and deep understanding of the overall AWS security posture. Your work will impact all employees within AWS and help us shape the future direction of automatic security tools in AWS.

Key job responsibilities
Design and develop systems for detecting security issues in software

Design and develop systems for detecting and presenting security problems so they can be fixed

Rapidly prototype and incubate new security features and solutions

Work closely with other internal development teams across various AWS services to coordinate security improvements

Deliver high quality solutions in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift

Learn about emerging security threats and implement systems to protect AWS from them

About the team
Our systems must be scalable to support a large and growing developer population that is innovating quickly. We help AWS developers build security into their systems, and we help AWS Security personnel verify that systems are secure. Our tools target all types of AWS systems in a range of domains including web services, IoT, robotics, hypervisors, and cryptography.