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Software Dev Engineer, Shield

Amazon· AWS Security / Shield (Perimeter Protection)
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USA, WA, Seattle$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Development Engineer role on Shield, AWS's defense team within Perimeter Protection. Focused on designing and operating internet-scale distributed systems to protect AWS infrastructure and customers from sophisticated attacks, across Layer 3/4 and Layer 7, with emphasis on security, scale, and rapid iteration.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate internet-scale distributed systems that protect AWS infrastructure and millions of customers from sophisticated attacks
  • Process and defend traffic representing a substantial portion of global internet activity across AWS's perimeter protection layer
  • Architect solutions for traffic volumes and attack patterns that push the boundaries of distributed systems design
  • Develop creative mitigations for evolving threats in an ambiguous, fast-moving landscape—including attacks that don't yet exist
  • Balance competing engineering priorities—massive scale, rapid iteration, and effective mitigation—while ensuring customer traffic flows safely and reliably
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams of software, hardware, network engineers, and security experts to deliver the highest standards of safety and security
  • Contribute to operational excellence through code reviews, architecture discussions, and production troubleshooting
  • Drive continuous improvement of detection and defense capabilities at the forefront of internet security

Qualifications

  • 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
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designSecurity engineeringC++, Java, C#, or Perl

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • RSUs and sign-on payments
  • Comprehensive benefits overview available at amazon.jobs/en/benefits
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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