Senior AWS SecDevOps Engineer - Lead Secure, Scalable Tools

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS SecDevOps is a pivotal role building internal security tooling at scale. You will lead architecture decisions for security response systems and mentor engineers, working with Java, TypeScript, React, Python, and SQL across front‑ and back‑end services.

The team develops APIs, websites, and SOAR tools to empower security operations, with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.
• Experience building highly available software with AWS services and distributed architecture.
• Experience working with React, TypeScript, building services with Java, Python and integrating with multiple systems.
• Experience or familiarity with building scalable systems that integrate Generative AI technologies
• Experience in security operations or related domains
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

Responsibilities

• Own team‑level architecture and design guidance for security response systems, ensuring solutions are reliable, secure, extensible, and simple.
• Lead projects requiring the coordinated work of multiple engineers, taking accountability for the design even when you don't author every component, maintaining a high security bar.
• Take business problems where the technology strategy is undefined and drive clarity, making sound trade‑offs between short‑term delivery and long‑term maintainability.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS SecDevOps is a pivotal role building internal security tooling at scale. You will lead architecture decisions for security response systems and mentor engineers, working with Java, TypeScript, React, Python, and SQL across front‑ and back‑end services.

The team develops APIs, websites, and SOAR tools to empower security operations, with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.