Front End Engineer II, SPEAR

Description

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Virtual Location - Washington

The Special Programs, Evaluations, Assessments & Response (SPEAR) team is seeking an experienced Front End Engineer to join our Security Engineering team. You'll be instrumental in developing sophisticated user interfaces for our security assessment platforms and automated evaluation systems that protect Amazon's global infrastructure. This position offers a unique blend of front end development and technical innovation, requiring collaboration with security professionals across Amazon's diverse facilities. This role is remotely based and requires approximately 10% travel.

Key job responsibilities
A Front End Engineer is responsible for building and supporting user workflows that enhance the customer's experience. This may include creating reusable front end components and tools, test and validate components, and iterating based on customer feedback. You’ll dive deep into stakeholder requirements and propose technical solutions to retain and improve the customer experience.

Other responsibilities include being an active reviewer of the team’s technology solutions and operations and helping new teammates understand the team’s customers, systems, and processes. You will also be responsible for thoroughly diagnosing problems in all aspects of operations.

A day in the life
The Special Projects, Evaluations, Assessments, and Response (SPEAR) team consists of dedicated security professionals with subject matter expertise in their respective fields. SPEAR specializes in identifying and providing recommendations for the challenging, unique, and out of the box security issues. SPEAR conducts deep dives of implemented physical, technical, and wireless security measures to ensure AWS’ customers’ information is safe and secure. SPEAR prides itself on delivering quality services to its stakeholders in a timely fashion to achieve a higher standard of security.

In the SPEAR Operational Support and Service (OS2) Security Engineering team, we build and manage a highly scalable, distributed systems and focus on the hard problems so stakeholders can focus on their business. We build out software, hardware, and additional tooling to help our customers accelerate their workflows.

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.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
- 2+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react
- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with security visualization tools and/or dashboards
- Experience building front end interfaces for user controlled, edge hardware-based services
- Familiarity with security assessment methodologies
- Experience with responsive design and cross-browser compatibility

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.