Founding Engineer, Automated Security Review Platform

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Security is building a brand-new security review platform in the LLM era from Austin, TX. You will be a founding engineer designing and writing a system that evaluates code changes across tens of thousands of engineers’ ships, with minimal human touch.

You’ll own architecture end-to-end, work with security experts, and help form a team as it scales. This role offers real design ownership and measurable impact on release velocity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core of an event-driven platform that evaluates code changes for security risk, routes the small fraction needing human attention, and clears the rest automatically.
• Own significant technical decisions end to end: data flow, evaluation pipeline, service boundaries, storage, and the tradeoffs behind each one.
• Build and tune the automated evaluation layers, including agentic checks, and the mechanisms that keep their decisions accurate over time.
• Partner closely with the security team that defines how risk is evaluated, turning their criteria into production code that runs reliably at scale.
• Work directly with the security engineers who handle escalated changes, building the queues, context, and tooling that make their reviews fast.
• Build the developer-facing experience: clear, trustworthy visibility into what was evaluated, what happened, and why, with as close to zero required action as possible.
• Negotiate and implement the integrations with adjacent platform and telemetry teams the system depends on.
• Raise the engineering bar on a new team: code review, design review, testing strategy, operational readiness, and on-call fundamentals from the start.
• Mentor engineers and help interview and grow the team as it scales.

Skills

5+ years software

5+ years programming

5+ years leading design

Mentor/tech lead

Job description

Amazon Security is building a brand-new security review platform in the LLM era from Austin, TX. You will be a founding engineer designing and writing a system that evaluates code changes across tens of thousands of engineers’ ships, with minimal human touch.

You’ll own architecture end-to-end, work with security experts, and help form a team as it scales. This role offers real design ownership and measurable impact on release velocity.