DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about the prospect of keeping millions of customers’ data safe? Do you want to be part of a team bringing the latest innovations in cryptography to market? Are you excited about the challenge of engineering highly scalable systems on the world’s market leading cloud infrastructure?

Security is the #1 concern of customers moving to the cloud and the AWS Cryptography team is dedicated to providing the security features our customers need. We enable customers to confidently move sensitive workloads to the cloud where they can benefit from security controls that help meet internal and external compliance requirements.

AWS Cryptography is focused on delivering optimized cryptographic algorithms for our customers that raises the bar on security. The successful Software Development Engineer will provide technical support for teams that require FIPS validated cryptographic modules, build tooling to automate our FIPS certification process, and make changes to both in-house and open source cryptographic modules. Come join our team if you want to influence some of the world’s largest cryptographic services!

Key job responsibilities
Perform technical security assessments of existing and new products and work closely with the engineering teams to ensure that findings are addressed.
• You will design and implement compliance requirements for in-house and open source cryptographic modules.
• Accelerate our FIPS certification process by developing automation frameworks.
• Work with a team of talented Software Development Engineers and Applied Scientists.
• Provide technical support for service teams attempting to certify their products or solutions.

BASIC 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
– Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 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

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.

USA, VA, Herndon