Software Development Engineer II Hardware Lifecycle Security, AWS Infrastructure Security Hardware Security

About AWS Infrastructure Security
AWS Infrastructure Security owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems and were looking for talented people who want to help.
Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
About the Team
At Amazon Web Services (AWS) we provide world-class flexible scalable and secure cloud services to the worlds fastest-growing startups the largest enterprises and leading government agencies. We do this by building maintaining and securing one of the largest most complex networks in the world. Within AWS the Infrastructure Security Organization Hardware Lifecycle Security (InfraSec-HLS) team owns the trust stream for network devices from manufacturing through deployment ensuring that only verified and trusted devices participate in the AWS network.
Demand for cloud computing is growing fast and so is the network that supports it. Every workload our customers run every service they depend on relies on infrastructure that our team secures. As the network grows so does the importance of what we do. We build the systems that establish device identity enforce network access decisions and ensure that nothing communicates on our network without first proving it belongs there. We work at the intersection of cryptography hardware security and large-scale distributed systems. If you want to work on the security foundation of the cloud this is the team.
About the Role
The AWS InfraSec-HLS team is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join our Software Development team. You will design build and operate the software that secures devices across the AWS network. You own your features end-to-end and youre expected to leave the systems better than you found them. Youll mentor other engineers help new team members get up to speed and push for better operational practices. When hard tradeoffs come up you work through them with your peers and senior engineers.
We need someone who can work autonomously on problems where the goal is clear but the path isnt. You should be comfortable making design decisions balancing short-term needs against long-term health and shipping software that others can maintain without you.

Key job responsibilities
Design and deliver software features spanning major portions of the teams systems including new development refactoring and deprecation.
Own the full software development lifecycle: scoping design implementation testing deployment operations and documentation.
Identify root causes of operational issues and resolve them with permanent fixes. Dont settle for the status quo.
Provide meaningful code review feedback to peers including those more senior and use review as a coaching mechanism.
Document how your teams software is constructed tested operated and secured and train new team members on these points.
Work with customers stakeholders and peers to understand business and customer value and ensure you deliver the right solutions.
Make priority tradeoffs between new feature development and operational work.
Resolve disagreements with peers through constructive dialogue.
On-call rotation to support the services owned by the team.
What Were Looking For
Experience delivering software end-to-end in production.
Ability to design solutions when the implementation isnt handed to you.
Track record of fixing systemic issues not just symptoms.
Experience helping other engineers grow.
Preference for durable solutions over quick fixes.
Familiarity with distributed systems security or infrastructure engineering.
Judgment on when to push forward alone and when to pull others in.


- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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