Security Software Engineer - AI & Cloud Scale

VulnU; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Retirement match

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Amazon ASCOT Engineering seeks a Software Dev Engineer to design, build, and own highly available, secure distributed systems on AWS. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver security automation solutions.

You will work at the intersection of security, AI, and customer trust, shipping features with startup speed while maintaining reliability and performance at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with AI tools to accelerate development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own scalable distributed systems on AWS.
• Lead architectural discussions and drive cross-team collaboration.
• Develop tooling for security automation and incident response.
• Mentor engineers and uphold engineering excellence.

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Python

AI tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related

Tools

Git

AWS

Linux

Job description

Amazon ASCOT Engineering seeks a Software Dev Engineer to design, build, and own highly available, secure distributed systems on AWS. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver security automation solutions.

You will work at the intersection of security, AI, and customer trust, shipping features with startup speed while maintaining reliability and performance at scale.