Amazon Security Software Engineer Alexa & Fire TV 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

748639511

Key job responsibilities
• Design and build reusable, maintainable, and performant software consistent with Amazon standard technologies (Java, JavaScript, React, AWS etc. ).
• Adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• Perform DevOps in a production environment by automating the design, coding, and deployment of infrastructure within an AWS environment. This includes developing CI/CD pipelines, instrumenting code to report relevant metrics, and building safe and efficient build processes.
• Collaborate with Security Teams to understand the latest security best practices and incorporate them into the product design and development
• Implement secure-by-design principles to ensure the new techniques and tooling are designed with security in mind from the ground up. This may include secure authentication and authorization, data encryption, input validation, and secure communication protocols
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. data scientists, product managers) to identify and solve complex AI/ML problems
• Ensure AI/ML systems adhere to security, privacy, and ethical standards
• Continuously monitor and improve the performance and reliability of AI/ML systems in production
• Contribute to the development of reusable AI/ML frameworks and libraries
• Build data pipelines and infrastructure to support the development and deployment of AI/ML applications
• Work with big data technologies to build robust data pipelines, run complex queries, and leverage ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools such as SQL, AWS Glue, Athena, and PySpark.A day in the life
Candidates must have a mix of communication and strong technical skills, comfortable white boarding security implementation techniques, and must be able to engage with different levels in the organization. Previous experience with Alexa is desired but not required, provided you have experience building production quality and secure technologies. You will get the opportunity to work directly with senior security and software engineers in Amazons AI Security organization, influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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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
- 3+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience

- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 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
- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.