Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

Our team works with the many AWS teams to solve security challenges that affect every AWS service at massive scale. Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud. They harness the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. The AWS Security team owns security for all of these services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, and many others.

We enable trust by building services that meet the security goals of our customers, from compliance to analysis. We dive deep into security technologies such as new authentication systems, hardware security components, cryptography, system hardening, and massive-scale audit analysis. Our team creates services that continuously scan, identify, and report on potential security threats for AWS. We deal with immense quantities of data from millions of sources to monitor and support hundreds of AWS teams keep their services secure.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will:

• Leverage Amazon technology (Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, etc.) to solve AWS Security problems at staggering scale
• Raise the bar on our software architecture and development practices
• Share ownership of our operational excellence, ensuring our system is properly tuned and has appropriate alarms for warning or error conditions
• Help drive our working backwards processes, inventing and simplifying on behalf of our customers
• Build security detections that identify specific security issues and automatically help customers reduce their risk through network and security controls

This role involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant, and when issues arise, we collaborate to resolve the root cause to prevent recurrence.

Join our world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by smart, passionate people who believe that world-class service is critical to customer success.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Legal right to work in Ireland
• Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union