Software Development Engineer, AWS Vulnerability Management

This position is located in Seattle WA. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the AWS Vulnerability Management organization. Our organization is accountable for the end to end vulnerability lifecycle across all of AWS. Within the organization our team owns host operating system vulnerability management and our job is to mitigate the highest security risks at machine speed and at the lowest cost to AWS. We find the hardest security problems in our fleet build prototypes iterate fast and reduce the attack surface so vulnerabilities never reach production hosts. Working with some of the largest services at AWS like EC2 S3 RDS SageMaker and Amazon Linux means diving deep into operating systems fleet automation and security data at AWS scale.

The successful candidate is one who turns a hard security problem into a service that solves it fleet wide. You will build the systems that determine why vulnerabilities persist across millions of hosts predict which ones will become critical before they do and drive remediation without a human in the loop moving mean time to remediate down and cutting the engineering hours AWS spends on patching. You will work directly with AWS service teams and partner security teams prototype fast and take what works from prototype to production. You will set the engineering practice for a growing team and own what gets built.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle WA

Key job responsibilities
Build the systems that determine why vulnerabilities persist across the AWS host fleet and drive them to remediation automatically.

Build detection that identifies where patching automation is not reaching hosts and route what it finds to the owning team.

Prototype fast against fleet-scale security data then take what works to production and own it there including on-call.

Partner with AWS service teams and security platform teams to reduce the attack surface across the fleet.

A day in the life
You will spend your days building and operating the systems that find and eliminate the causes of vulnerabilities across the AWS host fleet at a scale where every decision has to be right the first time. You will prototype an idea prove it against real fleet data and take the ones that work into production. You will work directly with AWS service teams to turn what you find into remediation they can act on immediately. The team is security engineers with deep fleet expertise a technical program manager and a support engineer and the engineering team is growing.

About the team
Our team owns host operating system vulnerability management for AWS. We find the hardest problems keeping vulnerabilities alive in the fleet build the services that eliminate them and work directly with the AWS service teams who run that fleet. You will build security services that protect AWS from real adversaries at a scale where the solution has to be automatic. The engineering team is growing and the scope grows with it.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security
At Amazon security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazons products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud devices retail entertainment healthcare operations and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.

Training & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.

- 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

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience designing and owning a system consumed by other teams including its data model and interface contract
- Experience operating what you build in production including on-call alarming and operational metrics
- Experience building production data-intensive systems with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark EMR or Glue
- Experience with data lakes or warehouse services such as Iceberg Athena Redshift or equivalent and strong SQL skills against large datasets
- Experience taking a prototype to a production service
- Interest in or exposure to security engineering vulnerability management or large-scale fleet operations

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually

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