SDE II, Veritas Core Platform

Secure Tools Foundation (STF) is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join a team of highly skilled individuals working on initiatives in resource and application discovery within AmSec. Our product, Veritas, is a foundational service 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.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the foundational team that helps enable significant security objectives. Your responsibilities will encompass designing, building, and scaling both our front-end framework and back-end APIs and services. You will think strategically and analytically about business and product challenges, and integrate compelling value propositions into software development. You will be working across the organization with engineers and leaders to drive product vision and lead technical implementation efforts. You will join a diverse team of product owners, software engineers, machine learning experts, data engineers and data scientists, working on a wide range of technical challenges across the full stack. If you enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the strategic direction of a large global organization, this is a great opportunity!

Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the engineering team, you will:

Influence product strategy by defining product features, refining system architecture, and spearheading best practices that enable a quality product.
Collaborate on software design reviews with senior engineers to ensure software is scalable, performant, and maintainable for the long term.
Deliver high quality software that is secure, testable, maintainable, efficient, and has little to no defects.
Focus on operational excellence including analyzing the overall health and performance of the system, such as the operational management of the graph database cluster, performance of our daily ETL and vended APIs.
Partner with other Product and Engineering teams to evaluate and develop security services and infrastructure.

A day in the life
The average day is centered around designing and building features to enhance existing applications.

Other elements of the day can include:
· 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

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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, San Diego - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually