Software Development Engineer - Amazon Corporate Security

Join Amazon Corporate Security as a Software Development Engineer

Contribute to one of the largest and most complex physical security systems in the world by joining Amazon Corporate Security (ACS)!

ACS’s mission is to deliver a safe and secure workplace for all Amazonians. The Tech and Tools team within ACS furthers that mission with innovative software, tooling, and automation that serves our organization and, ultimately, our customer base of 1.7+ million Amazon cardholders.

We’re looking for inventive software developers who are ready to tackle the needs, challenges, and scale that arise from a massive and distributed security system, creating solutions for issues that few (if any) companies have yet faced or solved.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Own the full software development lifecycle for a feature area, from design to implementation to testing.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable code that meets Amazon's engineering standards.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, system engineers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Participate in the broader technical vision and roadmap discussions for ACS' physical security platform.
• Mentor and share knowledge with junior engineers on the team.
• Actively participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and other team activities to continuously improve engineering practices.
• Identify and drive process improvements to increase the efficiency and reliability of the team's software development workflows.
• Proactively identify and mitigate potential operational risks to minimize the impact on customers.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team's incident response and disaster recovery procedures.

A Day in the Life

• Write code for highly anticipated features or architectural improvements.
• Investigate and troubleshoot complex issues across services and systems.
• Review a design document for new platform capabilities.
• Provide reviews and architectural guidance for Away-Team engineers on design best practices and operational lessons.
• Address product, design, or stakeholder questions and advise on technical implement trade-offs and effort estimates.
• Triage, investigate, and fix top-priority production issues.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.