Senior AWS SecDevOps Engineer: Build Security Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

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RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon's AWS SecDevOps team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to shape internal security tooling and scale security operations. You will lead architecture, guidance, and delivery across security response systems using AWS services, Java, TypeScript, React, Python, and SQL.

You may contribute as front-end, back-end, or full-stack, mentoring others and balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability, while collaborating with security customers and teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.
• Experience designing reliable, scalable software systems.
• Experience with AWS services and security-related projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own team-level architecture and design guidance for security response systems.
• Lead cross-team projects with accountability for design and security.
• Drive clarity on business problems with sound trade-offs.
• Review designs to ensure reliability and scalability for security-critical infra.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Security operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Java

Python

SQL

Job description

Amazon's AWS SecDevOps team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to shape internal security tooling and scale security operations. You will lead architecture, guidance, and delivery across security response systems using AWS services, Java, TypeScript, React, Python, and SQL.

You may contribute as front-end, back-end, or full-stack, mentoring others and balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability, while collaborating with security customers and teams.