Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Security Pipeline Engineering, Defensive Security
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
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
- We need folks who have a passion for building hyper-scale systems that are always online
- Those with an entrepreneurial spirit to take risks, experiment with new technical methods, and focus on improving what came before will find themselves perfectly at home in our team
- 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
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
What the job involves
- The Security Pipeline Engineering team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to aid in building the next generation of mission critical data processing pipelines and applications
- Our innovations handle pedabyte scale data, in real time
- These applications enable Amazon defensive security and security management teams globally
- Our engineers work directly with stakeholders, get close to customers' needs, and are empowered to take technical risks to build the best-in-class software with respect to quality, scale, and insights
- The technical foundation this team builds, helps keep all of Amazon (Fulfillment Centers, Physical Stores, Whole Foods, Fresh, etc.) secure
- Architecture Design and Review
- Software Feature development in Java and Python using AWS services (S3, Lambda, SQS, Fargate/ECS, EMR, Spark, etc.)
- Setting and achieving a high bar for Operational Excellence
- Earning trust in all directions; building partnerships with technical internal Amazon stakeholders WW
- System resilience testing and preparation
- Software project planning using Agile Methodologies (Scrum)
- As a member of the team, your duties will range from system/software design, AWS configuration, software feature/library development, strategic technical planning, and partnering with several security and technical teams worldwide
- One day you might be helping a vendor onboard their data into the magnificent data pipelines your team built, and the next day you may be advocating for a feature rewrite based on a deep dive analysis you performed
- You will be part of making the team your own
- We believe in a self-organizing team
- As one of the founding members you will help shape team process, outcomes, and goals as part of interactions with Senior Amazon Leadership
- Each day you will achieve new successes as you adapt to Amazon scaling, new bad actors arising, and emerging technologies being added to your portfolio
- You will shape, form, and deliver all aspects of the software and operations that your team delivers to enable defensive security and security management success
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 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
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
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
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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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