New York, NY, US
3 days ago
Software Dev Engineer II, Ads Security
The Ads Security organization at Amazon is dedicated to creating innovative technical solutions that detect, assess, and mitigate security risks within Amazon’s Advertising businesses. Our vision is to accelerate the development velocity of the Advertising business by ensuring that our products are inherently secure.
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to design and implement scalable, real-time software solutions to secure Amazon's Ads business, enhance customer privacy, and ensure data security. You will play a critical role in building scalable tools to identify, address, and mitigate security gaps, improving the security posture of 100+ Ads applications. Your work will include leveraging advanced cryptographic techniques such as SHA-256, symmetric key encryption, and secret key hashing to protect customer data and ensure compliance with security standards that benefits 100+ Ads teams.
In addition to building secure systems, you will help create paved paths for Ads teams to follow, promoting security best practices through reusable code patterns, libraries, and frameworks. As part of a team that owns business-critical tier-1 services, you will provide on-call support and ensure system reliability at scale.
If you are passionate about building secure, high-performance systems and have a background in software development with a focus on security, we want to hear from you! This is a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on Amazon's $50 billion Ads business while safeguarding one of the largest advertising platforms globally.


Key job responsibilities
* Design, implement, and deploy secure, scalable, low-latency, realtime software solutions to secure Amazon's Ads business.
* Ensure customer privacy and data security through the application of advanced cryptographic techniques.
* Work collaboratively in an agile environment with peers on design, technical refinements, code reviews, testing, and debugging customer issues.
* Create reusable code patterns, including APIs, libraries, and SDKs.
* Conduct design reviews to ensure alignment with security and performance standards.
* Mentor and guide fellow engineers to drive engineering excellence.

A day in the life
Your typical day-to-day responsibilities will include:

* Driving the design, implementation, and deployment of products that enhance security of Ads applications.
* Continuously improving product features through iterative development.
* Collaborating with peers on technical designs and refinements, code reviews, and testing.
* Developing and adopting testing frameworks and implementing test plans to ensure code quality and facilitate continuous delivery.
* Leading design reviews to ensure software development efforts are aligned with tactical goals.
* Mentoring fellow engineers and promoting best practices in engineering and security.

About the team
Why Ads Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Ads Security team is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Ads 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.

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.

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 and 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.
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