Senior SDE - AWS Security & Threat Prevention

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for AWS Security to build and operate automated detection and mitigation across AWS. You will lead software teams, collaborate with security engineers and data scientists, and help shepherd scalable, low-latency services that protect customer environments at scale.

We value curiosity, collaboration, and mentoring as part of a diverse team. The role offers broad impact across Amazon's security stack and opportunities to work with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to build automated security detection and mitigation workflows
• Design scalable architectures for low-latency, big data processing
• Improve the observability, performance, and efficiency of our existing systems
• Raise the bar for testing, repeatability, automation, and operational excellence
• Serve as a team and tech lead
• Mentor and develop teammates, both technically and professionally
• Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technologies

Skills

5+ years of software development

5+ years programming

4+ years leading architecture

Mentor / tech lead experience

Job description

Amazon Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for AWS Security to build and operate automated detection and mitigation across AWS. You will lead software teams, collaborate with security engineers and data scientists, and help shepherd scalable, low-latency services that protect customer environments at scale.

We value curiosity, collaboration, and mentoring as part of a diverse team. The role offers broad impact across Amazon's security stack and opportunities to work with