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Amazon Software Development Engineer II, Global Services Security in Austin, Texas
Description
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.
Global Services Security (GSS) Engineering is a centralized development team that makes security simpler for all AWS customers. We believe in constantly improving the way in which our users experience security through the innovations that we drive. To achieve this, we collaborate with various businesses to understand customer needs and then design, implement, and support new services that let customers operate at the speed of business.
Are you excited about designing and implementing brand-new, globally scalable services that simplify security for customers? Do you want to shape how customers perceive security? Are you interested in applying emerging technologies to solve customer challenges?
If so, join our team. We were among the first teams in AWS to develop and launch a fully serverless application available globally to our customers. Now, we recognize that new technologies like AI/ML can transform how the world approaches security. GSS continuously ensures that we use the most suitable technology to solve problems, allowing the services we build to have minimal operational burden and scale to meet the needs of our global customer base.
Key job responsibilities
This role offers a great opportunity to develop services that enhance security for AWS's global customer base. As a technical individual contributor, you'll join a growing team of talented engineers to design, implement and operate our services.
A day in the life
You will collaborate with others on the engineering team to perform day-to-day development activities, and participate in designs, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation. You will own the delivery of an integral piece of a system or application. You will also coach and mentor others on the team.
About the team
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
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
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.
About the team
GSS Engineering is a globally distributed team 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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, 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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