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 seasoned Software Engineer to build software security solutions that will enable our partners in Amazon Ads to deliver at the speed of business, and reduce the time they spend securing their products and applications. This is a rare opportunity to join at the early stage of a critical program which would help us build security innovation and automation solutions, capable of securing systems and resources on a massive scale. You will be expected to contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You have proven experience in security, and in big data. A successful candidate has strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results in the face of ambiguity in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will work with high levels of ambiguity, and will help find and resolve problems before we are aware that there will be problems. Amazon teams work with a lot of autonomy, which makes it our challenge to develop solutions to keep them developing securely and with the flexibility that enables them to innovate faster.
Responsibilities
- Drive the design, implementation and deployment of efficient, robust products to deliver access risk lifecycle management capabilities.
- Adopt an iterative, continuous improvement approach to release and deploy product features.
- Work in an agile environment, collaborate with peers on designs, technical refinements, code reviews, testing and customer issues.
- Develop/ adopt testing frameworks and implement test plans to improve code quality and facilitate continuous delivery.
- Build reusable code patterns including API's, libraries, SDK's etc.
- Lead design reviews to ensure all software development efforts are tactically aligned.
- Mentor fellow engineers and drive engineering excellence.
- End-to-end ownership of the data insights program in Ads Security.
- Develop next generation products that leverage GenAI technologies.
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
- Proven Experience in Natural Language Processing, GenAI, LLMs, or Neural Networks
Benefits
- Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of a total compensation package
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
