Description

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. Amazon Security Platform Engineering provides the tools that allow Amazon to secure the cloud, our employees, and our customers.

Security is critical to Amazon's customer trust. The Amazon Security Platform Engineering team develops and operates tools used by Amazon security professionals to protect Amazon data. We work across Amazon, including AWS, retail, and subsidiary business units. In support of our partners, you'll have opportunities to learn about security response and detection while building and maintaining our team's software.

Our team develops and operates a full stack of security software to protect Amazon from unwanted network connections and unwanted software. This work includes our own cross platform security client, the AWS cloud infrastructure to support distributing policy and gathering telemetry from clients, as well as an internal intelligence catalog service that gathers inputs from many sources that feed into the policy distributed to clients.

We utilize many different AWS services to build our APIs, UX, and infrastructure. We primarily use Python and Go languages for our infrastructure and we build our cross-platform security client using Go. We work with many internal partners to expand the functionality of the tools we offer to better protect Amazon data and systems.

Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland OR France OR Germany OR Netherlands OR Spain. Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain platform services using AWS and endpoint agents to build highly scalable solutions.

• Automate deployments, upgrades and system changes to ensure continuous operations

• Partner with cross-functional teams to understand their use cases and build solutions to meet their security needs.

• Enable customers to automate security tasks and track success metrics using our tooling

• Participate in on-call operations to ensure system reliability and continuity across the company

• Identify opportunities to enhance skills in software development, cloud computing and security

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

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 & 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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Mentorship & 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations.