Systems and Development Engineering

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. 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.Our team is looking for a highly motivated Systems Development Engineer in Amazon Security who will raise the security bar by delivering industry-best security services. You should be somebody who enjoys inventing and simplifying around complex security challenges, obsesses over the customer experience, and feels strongly about delivering results. We do not desire to simply produce good software here at Amazon Security we want to produce disruptive, industry-leading innovations. Key job responsibilitiesEach day, hundreds of thousands of developers and customers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud and the Amazon retail site. The Amazon Security team owns security for all of these services offered by Amazon Security, including EC2, S3, and many others, as well as the security of our global retail sites. This team is an EU-based Operations team, integrated with Software Development teams, supporting Amazon Foundational Security Services, to provide our customers with secure by default security services. We dive deep into security technologies such as new access control design patterns, identity security services, access control, authorization, authentication, and life cycle management to support our customers as Amazon continues to scale and grow. We are looking for software professionals from diverse backgrounds, who are creative problem solvers, and passionate about delivering solutions that improve both user experience and security. We want people who are excited to learn, to challenge the status quo, and who are energized by building highly scalable and available systems on a global scale.The EUSC Operations team runs a 24/7/365 operation, and on-call support will be required as part of this role. You would join the on-call rotation approximately once every 4-6 weeks.Being part of a 24/7/365 on-call rotation is an important aspect of maintaining operational excellence in this role, and we understand that striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. On-call rotations are structured to be manageable — occurring roughly once every 4-6 weeks — so that you can stay engaged and effective without feeling overburdened. We encourage members of the team to use personal time as needed to cultivate this balance and to promote a productive and well-balanced life — both in and outside of work.Our team works with users to design new security features, deploy software through large automated systems, and operationally support security software. You'll look for new approaches to automate fixes for operational issues and use Amazon Security services to solve design problems. A healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and balanced life, both in and outside of work.At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. 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.Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.Training & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Mentorship and Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Basic qualifications- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby- This role requires you to be a national of an EU member statePreferred qualification - Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodologyAmazon is an equal opportunities employer. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. 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