Would you like to help protect Amazon's global operations while building innovative solutions? The Security Integrations Group (SIG) Continuous Improvement (CI) Team is looking for a Systems Development Engineer who can bridge the gap between operations, security, and software development. This role combines hands-on system engineering with software development to create and maintain tools that enhance our security posture and operational efficiency.
As a System Development Engineer in SIG CI, you'll work in a dynamic environment where you'll not only develop tools but also help deploy, manage, and improve the systems that keep our security operations running smoothly. Through close collaboration with security teams and external partners, you'll help ensure the resilience and effectiveness of our security infrastructure.
What you'll be working on:
- Building and maintaining operational tools using React, JavaScript, and Python
- Managing and improving system integrations between internal and external security platforms
- Troubleshooting complex system issues across multiple technology stacks
- Creating automation solutions to enhance operational efficiency
- Implementing monitoring and alerting systems for security operations
- Developing documentation and operational procedures for security tools and systems
Top reasons to join our team:
- Work at the intersection of systems engineering, security, and software development
- Build solutions that directly impact Amazon's global security operations
- Learn and grow in a team that values continuous improvement
- Collaborate with diverse teams across Amazon's security landscape
Key job responsibilities
- Monitor and maintain critical security systems and infrastructure
- Design and implement automation solutions for operational challenges
- Develop and maintain internal tools using React and Python
- Create and improve system integration workflows
- Perform root cause analysis on operational issues
- Build and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions
- Provide technical support and guidance to security operations teams who use our internally developed tools
- Create and maintain technical documentation
About the team
The SIG team focuses on maintaining and improving the systems that protect Amazon's assets worldwide. We work in an environment that emphasizes both proactive system improvements and reactive problem-solving, following our tenet that "We prioritize prevention over intervention, investigation, and response
- Experience in at least one of these technology areas: DevOps, serverless, software development and design, CI/CD, AI/ML, Storage, Networking or Databases
- Experience with systems administration on either Linux/UNIX or Windows operating systems
- Experience with two or more of the following: networking fundamentals, security, storage or databases (relational or NoSQL), operating systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
- Experience with AWS or cloud technologies
- Experience with common security monitoring, log analysis and forensic tools
- Experience with automation and any version control tools, or experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems and experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience in technical support
- Experience programming in at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- Experience scripting languages and coding skills for one (1) or more of the following: Ruby, C/C++/C#, Node.JS, Java, Python, and PHP
- Experience in one or more of the following: application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, security infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls
- Experience as a systems administrator, engineer or technical IT/cloud operations support specialist
- Experience in hands-on infrastructure, troubleshooting, systems administration, networking, DevOps or applications development
- Experience working with agile development methodologies
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