Amazon Senior Software Developer Engineer Security Assurance 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

263899312

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will influence projects or initiatives that span across multiple products and/or teams, you will build and own internal services that identify and monitor security/compliance-relevant attributes of key infrastructure, streamline and scale execution of security and compliance audits/examinations of AWS services, and expand our ability to continuously monitor key security functions. You will demonstrate a high bar for engineer excellence, lead the technical strategy, and technical advisory for adjacent teams. You will write code that works at Amazon scale, mentor SDEs, contribute to solving complex engineering problems as well as business problems and understand and improve our agile processes to help us evolve a vision of compliance and security at AWS.Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:Write high-quality code with thorough test coverage as you mentor other developers so they can learn from your CRs.Realize that making software work is just the start and you value talking about cattle-vs-pets, continuous resiliency and capacity testing.
Truly care about designing highly available, secure, distributed systems of microservices, then you will make them even better by consulting with peers and technical leaders.
Work on Agile projects that have high visibility while making continuous improvements to planning, design, implementation, testing, and operations processes.
About the team
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- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5+ 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