System Development Engineer II, Offensive Security Development and Engineering
DESCRIPTION
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Systems Development Engineer to join our dynamic team in Austin, TX. In this role, you will be tackling complex, high-impact problems while developing, improving, and maintaining secure, scalable, high-performing systems. These systems should be low-maintenance and require minimal long-term sustaining and development. You will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies and solutions that span across multiple domains, offering ample opportunities to learn, innovate, and grow.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a passion for systems architecture and security—someone eager to contribute to technology solutions from a security-first perspective. No Prior Security technologies required, will be good to have. No prior experience in security technologies is required, but an interest in learning and applying security best practices is highly encouraged. If you're passionate about building secure, scalable systems and are eager to grow your skills in this space, this is the role for you!
Key job responsibilities
* You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new software with existing systems, ensuring compatibility and performance standards are met.
* You will work with a wide variety of technologies and projects that range from third party enterprise solutions to open source and proprietary inventions.
* You will develop automation scripts to streamline system processes, deployment workflows, and system monitoring tasks.
* You will create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including technical specifications, design diagrams, and implementation guides. Prepare regular reports on system performance and issues.
* We value security, performance, simplicity, and scalability in our designs. In your day-to-day work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand.
* Continuously monitor system performance, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability through optimizations.
* Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in systems engineering and software development to recommend improvements to current processes and solutions.
About the team
ABOUT AmSec:
Diverse Experiences
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Why Amazon Security
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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