Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon Security customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services. We continuously strive to simplify and scale security operations while resolving complex issues. We are looking for highly motivated Software Developers to help build and scale security incident response platforms and tooling across the largest cloud provider in the world.

Amazon Security OpRes is a team of Security Engineers and Software Development Engineers dedicated to enhancing security incident response through automation and innovation. Our mission involves optimizing existing processes while pioneering new solutions. We maintain and improve production services, developing advanced capabilities to streamline incident response workflows. Simultaneously, we undertake long-term innovation projects, working backwards from customer needs, analyzing data, and prototyping disruptive solutions with leadership oversight.

Leveraging modern technologies and Amazon's robust services, we empower our security response teams with productivity-boosting tools. At a massive scale, we build innovative platforms that fortify Amazon's security. Through continuous improvement and customer-centric innovation, we redefine the boundaries of security automation, ensuring a resilient and secure future for all.

You are a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on delivering innovative solutions that solve complex business problems and delight customers with efficiency and productivity gains. Your passion lies in building scalable, high-quality software that drives real impact. As a senior member of our team, you will not only craft robust, efficient, and user-friendly applications but also mentor junior developers and lead technical projects. While experience in security is a plus, it's not required. What truly matters is your ability to design and implement sophisticated systems, leveraging your strong background in modern software development practices, technologies such as AWS services, Python, TypeScript, and data engineering tools. Join our team and contribute to platforms that fortify Amazon's security posture and safeguard our customers' environments, while guiding and inspiring the next generation of developers.

Location is Paris, France.

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.

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.

Mentorship and 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.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
- Extensive experience in designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
- Programming experience with at least one software programming language- Java, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience as a tech lead OR leading an engineering team.
- This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state.

- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build
- Experience in prototyping quickly new systems and solutions
- Experience developing using SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in Cloud Technologies.

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