Software Development Engineer, AWS Proactive Security Detective Tooling
DescriptionThe Amazon Web Services (AWS) Proactive Security Detective Tooling (PSDT) team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who has a strong passion for security-at-scale. You will work on a team dedicated to building services that discover and audit AWS-owned websites for misconfigurations that could lead to security issues. You'll work on solving challenging web-based problems at scale, including crawling, fuzzing, user journeys, and CI/CD integration. You'll be at the forefront of web security.The Proactive Security Detective Tooling team is responsible for the security and availability of all of the services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, and more than 100 others. We develop the tools that keep AWS safe from malicious actors, preventing, detecting, and mitigating security events. We work closely with our Application Security, Threat Intel, Security Operations, and Security Analyst teams, to drive security improvements across AWS. This is a high visibility team that solves security challenges at a massive scale through automation.Our team deals with immense quantities of data, pushing the envelope on scale and various advanced analytical techniques to find and mitigate security threats. You’ll be expected to develop robust large scale distributed systems for processing data, and to provide technical leadership to other engineers to do the same. While you may not be a security expert just yet, you have a passion for solving security challenges in innovative ways. You’ll develop a broad and deep understanding of the overall AWS security posture and develop many of the core technology components to improve and scale.Key job responsibilitiesIn this role you will -· Be a technical leader that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate.· Own, drive, and deliver software solutions· Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.· Develop relationships with internal and external partner teams to move fast.· Help establish the long-term success strategy for your systems, development best practices, and operational excellence processes.· Collaborate with peers to ensure your strategies are in alignment with the rest of the development teams.· Develop junior and new team members by mentoring them on multiple fronts.About the teamThe mission of the Website Security team within AWS PSDT is to ensure all websites meet the AWS Security bar. This requires building large distributed systems that are capable of discovering and auditing internally-owned websites for potential misconfigurations. This team also develops solutions that drive remediation of website misconfigurations at AWS-scale, ensuring that AWS remains secure for our customers.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
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