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Description
The development and operation of large-scale services involve complex product and business tradeoffs coupled with challenging engineering problems to overcome. If you're driven, enjoy working on high-performing teams, and passionate about Cloud Security then what are you waiting for? Come join our AWS security team.
Our group is Amazon Foundational Security Services (AFSS). We deliver internal security services that support Amazon businesses including Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Twitch, Whole Foods, Kuiper, and many more. We develop Amazon's internal security services for identity management, permissions management, access control, authorization, and authentication. Our services are used company-wide to ensure that Amazon services have a strong security foundation.
We are looking for software professionals from diverse backgrounds, who are creative problem solvers, and passionate about delivering solutions that improve both user experience and security. Our services underpin many cloud technologies, so we carefully consider our technology decisions, dependency trees, and architectures to ensure that the company s critical services can depend on us. We are a global team and have a culture of learning from each other. We don t expect people to join our team knowing everything. We want people who are excited to learn, to challenge the status quo, and who are energized by building highly scalable and available systems on a global scale.
In this role, you ll be building software for internal security systems at Amazon. We use DevOps, so our teams are responsible for the full software lifecycle. We believe that user experience is a key factor in security outcomes, and we are working to transform security user experiences. You ll apply your creative problem-solving skills to develop simple and elegant security features that solve our customers biggest challenges.
Why Amazon Foundational Security Services (AFSS)?
At AFSS, we raise the bar for ever-improving security to maintain customer trust and continue to delight our customers. Our organization is responsible for 80+ services across the full Amazon enterprise, challenging us to remain nimble while addressing our many customer s requirements. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas at one of the world s most influential organizations.
Key job responsibilities
We work across the company on services that are always-on; the company depends on us. To perform our best, we value work/life harmony, flexible schedules, and unscheduled time to brain storm. We support established and rapidly growing services, with a DevOps model. Our challenges and goals are ambitious, often ambiguous, and we sometimes try things that don t work. We embrace the learnings from failure and iterate quickly. We emphasize shipping rapidly, using automated releases and testing to deploy frequently, and deeply root causing issues to ensure that we stay fast.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Manager it starts with building a high performing team. You are responsible for the software architecture, development, operations, and strategic direction of the team.
Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History. A typical day on our team involves working with users to design new security features, prototyping and demonstrating features to your users, deploying software through our large automated systems, and operationally supporting newly deployed software. The team looks for radical new approaches to automate fixes for operational issues, works with AWS services to solve design problems, and interacts with AWS teams to integrate applications.
You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success.
About the team
About AmSec:
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security 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 Amazon Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
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.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of engineering team management experience
5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
5+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
Bachelor's Degree in Computer science or related discipline (or) at least 5 years equivalent work experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $148,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.