Amazon Software Development Engineer II AWS Shield 

United States, California 

706536692

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.Our core competency is automating the detection and mitigation of complex, large-scale security threats. The number of attacks mitigated by AWS has more than doubled year-over-year while our operational burden has declined. When we identify a solution to a common issue, we prioritize improvements that detect and mitigate the problem safely and consistently, allowing our engineers to focus on the next big problem.Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will be involved in building robust, well-architected systems to protect and defend the AWS network, services and it's customers from network layer DDoS threats. You will be developing performant and highly scalable microservices to comprehensively protect applications on AWS against external threats. This includes new features and services that improve our intelligent attack detection, mitigation and event reporting.
A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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- 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Must be able to independently design code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes

- 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