Senior SDE: AI Access Control & Enterprise Security

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the authorization policies, enforcement plane, and audit systems for Amazon Quick. You will influence architecture, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers to raise the quality bar in security-critical AI-enabled access controls.

You will work on scalable, auditable, and safe interactions across human and agent actions, contributing to enterprise trust and the evolution of access-control practices in AI-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• Experience designing policy systems and authorization controls.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement authorization policies, enforcement mechanisms, and audit pipelines for Amazon Quick.
• Lead architecture of distributed access-control systems balancing scalability and security.
• Collaborate with partner teams to define service contracts and integration points.
• Evaluate and integrate generative AI tooling into development workflows with responsible practices.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and design guidance.

Skills

Access control

Policy design

Audit pipelines

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Amazon seeks a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the authorization policies, enforcement plane, and audit systems for Amazon Quick. You will influence architecture, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers to raise the quality bar in security-critical AI-enabled access controls.

You will work on scalable, auditable, and safe interactions across human and agent actions, contributing to enterprise trust and the evolution of access-control practices in AI-driven