Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Security Sensor & Telemtry Engineering

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

At Amazon, security is job zero. Amazon Security Platform Engineering provides the tools that allow Amazon to secure the cloud, our employees, and our customers. Security is critical to Amazon's customer trust. The Amazon Security Platform Engineering team provides our security professionals the tools they need to succeed. We work across Amazon, including AWS, retail, and subsidiary business units. In support of our partners, you'll have opportunities to learn about security response and detection while building and maintaining our team's software.

Would you like to be part of a dynamic team of Systems Development & Security Engineers, who are laser-focused on protecting Amazon's corporate data? Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate services that gather telemetry and visibility across a enterprise-scale network, with multiple platforms in the mix? Our team builds and operates the infrastructure and agent-based technologies needed to protect the company and its data.

If you join us, you'll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain world class experience in managing AWS based services, and round out your security skills. You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about security, believe that first class service is critical to success, and are committed to improvement.



Key job responsibilities
• Ability to operate AWS hosted services at scale
Integrate of commercial and in-house developed tools to deliver a complete security solution
• Solve customer-impacting problems quickly and smoothly
• Effortlessly transition from operating enterprise scaled infrastructure to deploying visibility sensors across hosts
• Understand the security problem being solved and deliver a solution that meets your customers' needs, breaking through technology constraints without breaking your service


A day in the life
Our Systems Development Engineers spend time:
• Deploying, operating, and maintaining management infrastructure to control our sensor networks
• Integrating commercial and in-house tools and services
• Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
• Building unique solutions to our customers’ technical problems
• Investigating and developing new ways to improve operations
• Mentoring, hiring and developing team members
• Studying and learning from industry recognized Amazon Senior and Principal Engineers.
• Identifying, troubleshooting and fixing root causes to problems.


About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.