Security Platform Engineer: Cloud, Automation & Scale

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, implement and maintain scalable platform services using AWS, helping security engineers detect anomalies and respond to threats.

You will collaborate with product owners, automate deployments, participate in on-call rotations, and continuously improve security tooling while balancing cost and performance across Amazon's global environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for large-scale systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain platform services and features using AWS to build highly scalable solutions.
• Automate deployments, upgrades and system changes to ensure continous operations
• Partner with cross-functional teams to understand their use cases and build solutions to automate their workflows.
• Enable customers to automate security tasks and track success metrics using our tooling
• Participate in on-call operations to ensure system reliability and continuity across the company
• Identify opportunities to enhance skills in software development, cloud computing and security

Skills

Software development experience

Design/architecture experience

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, implement and maintain scalable platform services using AWS, helping security engineers detect anomalies and respond to threats.

You will collaborate with product owners, automate deployments, participate in on-call rotations, and continuously improve security tooling while balancing cost and performance across Amazon's global environment.