Senior Software Development Engineer, Customer Logistics Security

Amazon’s Customer Logistics Security organization is looking for passionate, experienced software developers to join us for building scalable systems to raise the bar for security. Joining our organization gives you the opportunity to work on an extremely important and critical initiative that’s still in its early stages and build a product that will scale globally to Amazon’s massive scope.

You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced 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 top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will design and build the operational scalability that sustains the platform's insane growth. You will measure your success and it will be visible.

Successful candidates for this position will have strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures, object-oriented design, and algorithms), experience in the full-stack development, a well-honed arsenal of software architecture and design patterns, and a demonstrated competence in designing reusable, maintainable and performant software written in a modern high-level language (Java, Python, C++, C, C#, JavaScript). You will be a champion for engineering and operational excellence. You will also demonstrate the ability to adapt to changing business and technical environments and devising creative solutions to vexing software problems. The ability to crisply and concisely communicate orally and in writing to engineers and executives alike is essential.

In this job you will:

Design and build reusable, maintainable, and performant software consistent with Amazon standard technologies (Java, JavaScript, React, SOA, AWS etc. ).
Adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
Excel in Dev-Op along with development. Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
Build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon.
Follow Scrum and other agile methods to deliver the most important features to the customer first.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience developing or integrating federated identity solutions using SAML, OAuth, or OpenID and using federation providers similar to Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) or similar
• Understanding of Identity Systems like LDAP and/or Active Directory
• · Familiarity with AWS Security services, controls and deployment
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Strong understanding of system and application performance characteristics.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• 2+ years of working with large distributed systems
• · Experience in databases, analytics, big data systems or user behavior analytics a strong plus;

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 $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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 pay