Software Development Engineer II, SPEAR

The Special Programs, Evaluations, Assessments & Response (SPEAR) Team is seeking an experience and talented software development engineer to join our security engineering team. This position is responsible for designing and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure. You will work extensively within AWS tools and services to create highly scalable, fault tolerant systems. You will work within a team of experienced engineers and security professionals to improve the security posture of Amazon sites across the globe! This role is remotely based and requires travel, amounting to 10% on average.

Key job responsibilities

A Software Development Engineer is responsible for building and supporting tools and workflows that safeguard and automate operational success. This may include creating production hardware management workflows and tools, test cluster orchestration setup, and performance benchmarking environments. You'll dive deep into operational issues and propose technical and cultural changes to retain and improve the customer experience.

Other responsibilities include being an active reviewer of the team's technology solutions and operations and helping new teammates understand the team's customers, systems, and processes. You will also be responsible for thoroughly diagnosing problems in all aspects of operations, including hardware, software, and operating environments.

A day in the life

The Special Projects, Evaluations, Assessments, and Response (SPEAR) team consists of dedicated security professionals with subject matter expertise in their respective fields. SPEAR specializes in identifying and providing recommendations for the challenging, unique, and out of the box security issues. SPEAR conducts deep dives of implemented physical, technical, and wireless security measures to ensure AWS' customers' information is safe and secure. SPEAR prides itself on delivering quality services to its stakeholders in a timely fashion to achieve a higher standard of security. Here at SPEAR Operational Support and Service (OS2) Security Engineering team, we build and manage a highly scalable, distributed systems and focus on the hard problems so stakeholders can focus on their business.

Joining the Amazon SPEAR OS2 Security Engineering team gives you the opportunity to:

Join a fast-growing team within SPEAR as we expand virtually.

Solve challenging operational problems for a large scale and distributed system

Build services and tooling to operate a dynamically changing production environment

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

- 2+ years of machine learning, statistical modeling, data mining, and analytics techniques experience

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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