Senior AI Security Engineer for Open Source & Supply Chain

Amazon; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Herndon seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to define, design, build, and operate AI-powered security solutions across the full pipeline of open source software use.

You will mentor security engineers and work with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high-impact security tooling. In this high-autonomy role, you will design LLM-based code scanning with Bedrock and SageMaker, drive proactive automation, and ensure 24/7 reliability through strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of systems.
• Experience as a mentor or tech lead.
• Knowledge of ML/LLM fundamentals and deployment.
• Proven open source contributions and upstream work.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build AI-powered security applications and tooling.
• Transform manual processes into high-volume automated pipelines.
• Collaborate with leaders and influence across orgs.
• Drive proactive security automation and remediation.
• Own operational excellence with SLAs and runbooks.
• Lead technical design and requirement trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers and raise team standards.

Skills

Software development

Programming

Architecture design

Mentorship

ML & LLM

Open source contributions

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Bedrock

SageMaker

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Herndon seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to define, design, build, and operate AI-powered security solutions across the full pipeline of open source software use.

You will mentor security engineers and work with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high-impact security tooling. In this high-autonomy role, you will design LLM-based code scanning with Bedrock and SageMaker, drive proactive automation, and ensure 24/7 reliability through strong