Software Development Engineer, IAM Monitoring

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

We're seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our Identity and Access Management Monitoring team, where you'll play a crucial role in safeguarding Amazon's vast digital infrastructure. In this position, you'll architect and implement sophisticated monitoring solutions for our access control systems, focusing on fine-grained access control (FGAC), attribute-based access control (ABAC), and context-based authorization mechanisms. You'll work to develop robust monitoring tools that ensure the security and integrity of sensitive data across hundreds of thousands of services. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with multiple Amazon organizations and seasoned technical leaders, as you help design and maintain scalable solutions that detect, alert, and respond to potential security threats and access anomalies. Your expertise will be instrumental in building and enhancing monitoring systems that protect our Access Policy Management infrastructure, ultimately helping to solve complex challenges around over-permissioning and ensuring appropriate access controls are maintained across the organization.

We are looking for enthusiastic Software Development Engineers with strong analytical and problem solving skills, who will participate in full development cycle for mission critical systems. You will work with state of the art technologies and tools, on innovative and sophisticated features, collaborate with your team and its leadership to drive key engineering and business decisions that will enhance the Amazon’s security posture. You will contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, implementation, documentation, testing and operations.

Key job responsibilities

• You document what your team’s software does; how it is constructed, tested, and operated; how secure it is; and how it fits into the bigger picture. When new teammates join, you actively train them in these points.
• Your work focuses on delivering software features and improvements to major portions of your team’s software. This is not just new software but often includes refactoring and deprecation work.
• You design software solutions to enable new features or improve software. You may still require guidance from your team’s leadership to ensure your designs are in alignment with your team’s long-term architectural strategy.
• You work on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You bring clarity to problems and identify simple designs for solutions.
• You are a significant contributor to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code, testing, deployment and maintenance of the team's software.
• You are active in the code review process on your team, providing meaningful feedback to others, including those who are more senior.
• Your work positively impacts the software quality, customer experience, and maintainability of your team’s product(s). You are starting to balance customer requirements with team requirements.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Mentorship & Career Growth

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.

Training & Career Growth

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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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