About the position
The Ads Security organization at Amazon is dedicated to creating innovative technical solutions that detect, assess, and mitigate security risks within Amazon's Advertising businesses. Our vision is to accelerate the development velocity of the Advertising business by ensuring that our products are inherently secure. We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to design and implement scalable, real-time software solutions as part of a tier-1 service used by 100s of Ads builder teams to securely handle PII data. Your work will include leveraging advanced cryptographic techniques such as SHA-256, symmetric key encryption, and secret key hashing to protect customer data and ensure compliance with security standards that benefit 100+ Ads teams. In addition to building secure systems, you will help create paved paths for Ads teams to follow, promoting security best practices through reusable code patterns, libraries, and frameworks. As part of a team that owns business-critical tier-1 services, you will provide on-call support and ensure system reliability at scale. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to work on design and development of innovative tools that proactively identify and mitigate risks across the Ads organization, ensuring alignment with industry-leading security standards and practices. If you are passionate about building secure, high-performance systems and have a background in software development with a focus on security, we want to hear from you! This is a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on Amazon's $56 billion Ads business while safeguarding one of the largest advertising platforms globally.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and deploy secure, scalable, low-latency, realtime software solutions to secure Amazon's Ads business.
- Ensure customer privacy and data security through the application of advanced cryptographic techniques.
- Develop critical security tooling to enhance the overall security posture of the Ads business.
- Work collaboratively in an agile environment with peers on design, technical refinements, code reviews, testing, and debugging customer issues.
- Create reusable code patterns, including APIs, libraries, and SDKs.
- Conduct design reviews to ensure alignment with security and performance standards.
- Mentor and guide fellow engineers to drive engineering excellence.
Requirements
- 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
Nice-to-haves
- 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
- Strong ability to collaborate across teams and influence security best practices.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements
- Endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources
