The role
From Amazon's own posting.
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. AWS Vulnerability Management (AVM) is accountable for the end to end vulnerability lifecycle across all of AWS: finding, contextualizing, and assessing vulnerabilities, and driving remediation at machine speed, without manual work from builders and at the lowest cost to AWS.
The Remediation Engineering Team (PitCrew) builds and operates the capabilities that close the gap between a finding being known and it being gone. Our mandate is to automate mitigation, remediation, and assessment. We develop capabilities for mitigation and remediation outside of patching: recognizing potentially vulnerable and unused software components and retiring them on behalf of service teams, delivering remediations to builders as changes they can review and approve, and acting on hosts and their payloads within minutes when a patch is unavailable or too slow. We also build the tooling AVM security engineers use to codify, classify, and track the blockers that keep service teams from remediating on time, and the automation behind assessment and attestation: contextualizing findings with asset-level signals such as network reachability and compensating controls so that severity reflects true risk and every critical finding is a true critical, attesting to accepted residual risk, and generating evidence of those decisions continuously for auditors and customers.
As a Software Development Engineer II on PitCrew, you will design, build, and operate services that act on hosts and containers across AWS at fleet scale. You will own features end to end: working with security engineers to understand a problem, writing the design, implementing it, deploying it, and operating what you ship. The work sits at the intersection of distributed systems, host and container internals, and security, and much of it is about making changes to production systems safely and reversibly at scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate services and automation that mitigate, remediate, and assess vulnerabilities across AWS fleets, reducing the attack surface and mean time to remediate without a human in the loop.
- Build the contextualization that turns raw findings into accurate, prioritized risk for builders, so service teams act on true criticals first.
- Own the full lifecycle of your software: requirements, design reviews, implementation, testing, deployment, metrics, alarms, and on-call.
- Build tooling that security engineers use daily, and work closely with them to turn investigation, remediation, assessment, and attestation workflows into software.
- Make changes to production hosts and containers safe by default: reversible, observable, attested, and gated appropriately.
- Raise the bar on operational excellence through metrics, dashboards, and continuous improvement of the systems you own.
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to the team's technical direction through design reviews and documentation.
A day in the life
You will spend most of your time designing and writing software, reviewing designs and code from teammates, and working with AVM security engineers and the partner teams that consume what we build. You will participate in the team's on-call rotation for the services we operate.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
- 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
- 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
- Experience building or operating systems in security, vulnerability management, fleet management, or host/container infrastructure, and interest in turning security findings into automated remediation
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually