Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Authorization Management

Salary not provided
C#
Java
C++
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
C#
Java
C++
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
  • Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
  • Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Desirable

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

What the job involves

  • What do you know about protecting sensitive data
  • What about fine-grained access control (FGAC) on Big Data
  • Or attribute-based access control (ABAC) and context based authorization?
  • In Security Products we build Access Policy Management systems to enable all Amazon teams to apply FGAC to their sensitive data
  • We build products that apply context based authorization to solve the problem of over-permissioning
  • In our newly created organization we have a rare opportunity to engage with multiple Amazon organizations and groups of experienced tech leaders to build products with impact at an impressive scale (hundreds of thousands of services)
  • We are looking for enthusiastic Software Development Engineers with strong analytical and problem solving skills, who will participate in full development cycle for mission critical systems
  • You will work with cutting-edge technologies and tools, on innovative and sophisticated features, collaborate with your team and its leadership to drive key engineering and business decisions that will enhance the Amazon’s security posture
  • You will contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, implementation, documentation, testing and operations
  • You document what your team’s software does; how it is constructed, tested, and operated; how secure it is; and how it fits into the bigger picture
  • When new teammates join, you actively train them in these points
  • Your work focuses on delivering software features and improvements to major portions of your team’s software
  • This is not just new software but often includes refactoring and deprecation work
  • You design software solutions to enable new features or improve software
  • You may still require guidance from your team’s leadership to ensure your designs are in alignment with your team’s long-term architectural strategy
  • You work on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks
  • You bring clarity to problems and identify simple designs for solutions
  • You are a significant contributor to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code, testing, deployment and maintenance of the team's software
  • You are active in the code review process on your team, providing meaningful feedback to others, including those who are more senior
  • Your work positively impacts the software quality, customer experience, and maintainability of your team’s product(s)
  • You are starting to balance customer requirements with team requirements
  • 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

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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