Are you passionate about contributing to open source? Are you excited at the prospect of keeping millions of customers’ data safe? Do you want to help secure web services by implementing cryptography at scale? Security is the #1 concern of customers moving to the cloud and the
AWS Cryptography organization 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 strong security controls that help meet internal and external compliance requirements.
AWS Encryption at
Rest team helps
AWS customers protect their sensitive data inside and outside of the cloud by building and maintaining easy to use, secure, open source encryption tools and libraries. We are looking for an experienced software developer with an interest in practical cryptography to join us in building the most secure and user-friendly tools available to help our customers protect their data and accelerate use of cryptography in all
AWS services.
You should have experience designing scalable, customer-centric systems and a passion for delivering secure software solutions. Along with senior leaders, principal engineers, and security specialists you will own delivering and supporting cryptographic tools and libraries used by internal and external customers around the world.
Key job responsibilities
- Owning the complete software development lifecycle; defining, prioritizing, designing, testing, and implementing new features for
AWS Cryptography
- Architecting and driving the end-to-end framework that enables internal teams to integrate seamlessly with encryption libraries.
- Delivering foundational libraries for one of the most secure and reliable services in all of
AWSA day in the life
We own open source libraries, which means that we work out of GitHub, we respond to issues public issues and communicate with external customers regularly.
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- 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
- Knowledge of Linux fundamentals
- Experience with development in a
distributed systems environment
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as
Rust,
Python,
Java, C,
C++, or
C# including object-oriented design
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USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually