Amazon Software Development Engineer Secure Channel Systems 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

645531291

As a Software Development Engineer focused on building secure channel solutions for AWS foundational services, you will play a crucial role in designing and developing highly secure, scalable, and performant communication channels for diverse AWS offerings. Your primary responsibility will be to implement robust encryption in transit mechanisms to protect data in transit, ensuring the end-to-end security of customer information. You will collaborate closely SDEs across AWS services, as well as security teams and program managers, to build solutions that address complex security challenges, constantly working to optimize and harden our secure channels to meet evolving compliance and regulatory requirements.In this role, you will collaborate with customers and peers to define the solutions that you build. You will mentor more junior teammates, sharing your knowledge and expertise to help them grow and develop. Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills will allow you to liaise with cross-functional stakeholders effectively, ensuring the seamless integration of your secure channel solutions into the broader AWS ecosystem.Utility Computing (UC)
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We’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.Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop highly secure, scalable, and performant communication channels and related software for diverse AWS service offerings
- Continuously optimize and harden secure communication channels to meet evolving compliance and regulatory requirements
- Ensure seamless integration of secure channel solutions into the broader AWS ecosystem
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers to help them grow and develop their skills- Leverage expertise in network security, cryptography, and secure communication protocols (e.g. TLS, QUIC) to drive innovative secure channel designs
A day in the life
As a Secure Channel Systems SDE, you'll dive deep into requirements with SDEs from AWS service teams, with Sr. SDEs and PEs, and with security experts to inform your designs. You'll rely on experiments and proof-of-concept testing to gain confidence in the solutions you put forward. You'll spend time mentoring team members. You'll participate in architectural reviews and perform code reviews. With a keen focus on security, scalability, and reliability, you'll be a driving force behind the secure communication backbone that underpins AWS foundational services.

- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent