Senior Security Engineer – LLM & Graph-Driven Systems

Amazon Inc.

Arlington (VA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 227,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Amazon Leo Security is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Leo Infrastructure and IP Security team. You’ll own platform architecture, build distributed systems, and drive automation and secure operations in a high-consequence environment.

You will mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and collaborate with scientists to productionize research while maintaining reliability and observability across services in a global constellation.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming in at least one software language.
  • 5+ years leading design/architecture of new and existing systems.
  • Experience mentoring, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Experience with performance optimization and multi-threading.

Responsibilities

  • Own architecture decisions across the platform, ensuring security and scalability.
  • Design and build distributed systems with telemetry ingestion and real-time processing.
  • Drive automation, backtesting infrastructure, and deployment guardrails.
  • Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and set code quality standards.
  • Operate what you build, ensuring reliability and incident response.

Skills

Non-internship software development
Programming languages
Architecture leadership
Mentor / tech lead
Performance optimization
Distributed systems
Real-time streaming
System design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Leo Security is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Leo Infrastructure and IP Security team. You’ll own platform architecture, build distributed systems, and drive automation and secure operations in a high-consequence environment.

You will mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and collaborate with scientists to productionize research while maintaining reliability and observability across services in a global constellation.

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