Software Development Engineer, Amazon Optics

About the role

Join the Amazon Optics team and be at the forefront of building innovative services that secure the foundation of our business from security threats. Our team develops and manages critical services used by all Corporate and AWS data center employees to protect physical sites and preserve the trust that AWS users have placed in us. You'll work with passionate software engineers to build systems that are essential for keeping Corporate and AWS sites secure worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure services that protect AWS physical locations, making meaningful contributions to the full software development lifecycle from scoping and design through testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Take ownership of operational excellence, identifying root causes of issues and implementing permanent fixes while continually improving team operations.
• Work with stakeholders to understand business and customer value, ensuring you deliver solutions that balance customer requirements with team objectives.
• Actively participate in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to teammates while contributing to documentation that explains how systems are constructed, tested, and operated.
• Automate operational inefficiencies for both the team and customers, building solutions that scale across all AWS regions while maintaining high quality standards.

Requirements

Your day begins with a quick team standup to align priorities before diving into coding complex security features for the Optics platform. You'll collaborate with teammates to solve challenging architecture problems, review pull requests, and participate in design discussions for upcoming features. Throughout the day, you'll work in an IaC deployment environment where you'll design, develop, test, and deploy solutions. You'll have opportunities to automate operational inefficiencies and stretch yourself technically while helping secure AWS sites globally.

Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Programming experience with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Benefits

Amazon 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.