Are you interested in shaping the future of AWS? Do you want to be part of building something with massive impact? AWS Global Services Security (GSS) Engineering is looking for strong software engineers to join us as we make security smarter and simpler for all AWS customers. Today is just the beginning, and we want you to be part of our journey to innovate the way in which our users experience security. If you want to be part of the development and launch of a new AWS service, we want to meet you!
As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to grow and have impact by defining the system architecture, owning and implementing specific components, and shaping the overall experience. Together we build highly available, secure, scalable, distributed and event-driven systems. As an SDE, you will contribute to planning, architecture design, implementation, testing, and process improvement.
Key job responsibilities
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to develop new services that enhance security for AWS's global customer base. As a software engineer, you'll join a growing team of engineers focused on building transformative security services, working to reinvent how Amazon and our customers perceive and experience security. You will help set technical standards and shape Global Services Security's overall technical architecture and engineering practices.
A day in the life
You will collaborate with engineering teams across AWS to design, deliver, and refine solutions that make it easier for our global customers to operate secure and compliant workloads within AWS. You'll work closely with our business team to ensure a clear understanding of the core problem we aim to solve. You'll partner with Product Management, UX Designer, and developers to create appropriate user stories and a roadmap.
Since the development and career progression of our team members is a priority, you will also coach and mentor others on the team to support their growth and achievement of career goals.
About the team
GSS Engineering has several teams distributed among several key development centers primarily within the US, but also globally. The team is driving AWS's new security growth initiatives. Our vision is to secure the world's workloads and create a brighter future for humanity. We work with customers and partners to develop security solutions that enable our service teams to deliver the right products and features. By harnessing security-relevant data, we gain insights and automate actions to mitigate customer security concerns proactively, ideally without requiring any action on their part.
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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 AWS
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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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords engineers options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our US Amazon offices. Our hybrid models allow you the freedom to work from home whenever in-office collaboration isn't necessary.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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