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AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re 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, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll 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 you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

The AWS Threat Research Team is responsible for publishing a rich source of AWS home-grown threat intelligence for AWS services and customers. We are looking for talented, creative and passionate Security Engineers to help us research threats in innovative ways to deliver actionable threat indicators and disrupt threats. The AWS Threat Research Team (TRT) is looking for a security engineer with deep expertise in application and network security who is passionate about research, advocacy, and protecting large-scale, production applications.

As a part of this role, you will:

• Learn how our products work today, and where we want to take them in the future

• Help craft and build out threat data gathering security systems at scale

• Stay on top of cyber security trends and mentor other engineers in the same

• Act as a technical lead, influencing other engineers’ designs and coding deliverables

• Work in an agile development environment, collaborating closely with software engineers

• Have fun in a challenging but rewarding environment

We believe that a diverse group of people with different backgrounds and experiences are essential to invention and we therefore do all we can to attract and nurture diversity in our team. As an Amazonian you will learn from and collaborate with talented colleagues across the globe.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, come build with us!

About the team

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re 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, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll 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 you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Would you like to develop new AWS services that enhance our customers’ ability to protect web applications against evolving threats and attacks?

AWS Perimeter Protection has created unique technology and innovative services such as AWS Shield, AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager and Network Firewall to monitor and defend some of the largest distributed networks in the world, but it is still only Day 1.

At AWS, you’ll have the opportunity to raise the bar, developing brand new features for recently launched services that defend against evolving threats while providing customers with centralized management and visibility.

We build everything from low-level packet inspection hardware/software to customer-facing AWS services to globally distributed systems capable of mitigating the world’s largest and most sophisticated attacks.

We are looking for talented, motivated and innovative software engineers to join a world-class team responsible for contributing to continued development and enhancement to Network Firewall in Seattle, Washington.

Join us if …

You want to develop services that defend some of the Internet’s largest businesses from bad actors and malicious requests. The problems we solve are complex and constantly evolving.

You care deeply about delighting customers and building high quality software. Our leadership principles (http://www.amazon.jobs/principles) empower us to act and challenge us never to accept the status quo.

You want to work in a fast-paced environment with a start-up atmosphere. We ship code every day!

At AWS, you will play a leading role, influencing how we design, develop, build, deploy and support new services. To be successful, you must be able to research, innovate and create unique solutions. You’ll interact with customers, gathering requirements, designing, implementing, testing and supporting the product operationally; soup to nuts. You will be expected to leverage your technical background and have a significant impact on the direction of new service development

Successful candidates will enjoy distributed systems design, deep packet analysis, and have outstanding analytical skills and communication ability. They will thrive in a highly collaborative, creative, analytical, and fast-paced environment and be comfortable interacting with highly technical software and networking development teams. Does that sound like you? If so, we encourage you to apply!

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• 5+ years of experience in network or application security

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of security vulnerabilities, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for remediation of such.

• Experience protecting large-scale applications using Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), network firewalls, and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS).

• Experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

• Strong presentation and written English communication skills; high degree of comfort with technical and executive audiences.

• Experience scripting in common languages (e.g. Ruby, Python)

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.