Software Development Engineer II, Veritas

Amazon security (AmSec) is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join a team of highly skilled individuals working on our initiatives in resource and application discovery within Amazon security. Our product, Veritas, is a foundational service within Amazon security that discovers all the resources owned by Amazon and the interconnections between them. This knowledge is then used for several security initiatives like security reviews, threat modeling and detection, access control and incident response.

Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the engineering team, you will have influence on our product strategy by helping define the product features, refine system architecture, and spearhead best practices that enable a quality product.

A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.
You will heavily influence design and implement significant portions of critical-path code, work independently and collaborate on software design reviews with senior engineers to ensure software is scalable, performant, and maintainable for the long term.

You will help deliver high quality software that is secure, testable, maintainable, efficient, and has little to no defects.
Creating a highly stable foundational service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
You will focus on operational excellence including analyzing the overall health and performance of the system.

You should enjoy working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.

A day in the life
The bulk of an average day is centered around designing and building features to enhance existing applications.
Otherwise other elements of a day that happen are:
Working on ad-hoc requests and bug fixes
Participating in doc reviews with product managers and stakeholders
Supporting and delegating tickets while on-call
Team meetings and presentations/learning sessions

About the team
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, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont 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 Amazons 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, its 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.

- 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

- 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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