SDE II - AI-Driven Security Platform (Flexible Hours)

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Security Detection, Response & Engineering (SDRE) is building a new defensive security platform from scratch, requiring an SDE II who can architect scalable, low-latency systems and lead engineering standards. You will drive AI-first approaches across detection, response, and forensics, balancing speed-to-market with long-term durability.

You will mentor engineers, influence roadmaps with security leadership, and own end-to-end delivery from design through production operation, in a

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 programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture of critical components within our new defensive security platform, designing for scale, low-latency, and resilience from day one.
• Drive the AI-first approach by identifying opportunities to apply machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent automation to detection, response, and forensics workflows.
• Make high-judgment technical trade-offs across distributed systems, evaluating build vs. buy, prototyping emerging technologies, and selecting architectures that balance speed-to-market with long-term durability.
• Influence the product roadmap in partnership with product and security leadership to define what we build, why it matters, and how it delivers customer trust at optimal business cost.
• Set engineering standards for the team across operational excellence, security, testing, CI/CD, and observability by leading through example.
• Mentor and elevate engineers around you while fostering a culture of curiosity, ownership, and psychological safety.
• Navigate ambiguity and drive alignment by synthesizing discordant perspectives, making data-driven decisions, and influencing across organizational boundaries.
• Own end-to-end delivery: design, build, test, deploy, and operate production systems with high autonomy.

Skills

Software development

System design/architecture

Programming experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Security Detection, Response & Engineering (SDRE) is building a new defensive security platform from scratch, requiring an SDE II who can architect scalable, low-latency systems and lead engineering standards. You will drive AI-first approaches across detection, response, and forensics, balancing speed-to-market with long-term durability.

You will mentor engineers, influence roadmaps with security leadership, and own end-to-end delivery from design through production operation, in a