At Amazon Security, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA.
Amazon Security is a multidisciplinary team comprised of software engineers, security engineers, program managers, data engineers, and compliance specialists. If you are looking for an opportunity to think big, invent, experiment, build, and have a material impact on cloud security and compliance, this is it.
We build and maintain the tooling and services that enable Security Operations to operate at scale. Our charter is to automate, innovate, and scale: reducing manual toil, improving response times, and giving security analysts the intelligent tooling they need to keep pace with AWS's growth. Our portfolio includes AI-powered incident response assistants, security issue management integrations, mass notification platforms, inbound email triage systems, and data analytics solutions.
We are hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to serve as the technical lead for the Gravemind team. You will own architecture decisions, drive design reviews, mentor engineers, and deliver on critical-path implementations. You will partner closely with security analysts who rely on your systems around the clock, and your technical judgment will shape how security automation scales across AWS.
This role demands someone who can hold the full picture of a multi-service portfolio while diving deep into any one system when it matters. You will balance building AI-powered capabilities with operational rigor, because security operations never sleep and neither can the tooling that supports them.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of AI-powered security automation, including intelligent incident response and natural language-driven security workflows.
- Mentor and develop engineers on the team. Raise the technical bar through code reviews, pairing, and hands-on guidance.
- Drive operational excellence for services that support 24/7/365 security operations, including on-call, observability, and incident response.
- Partner with security analysts and security engineers to understand workflows, identify automation opportunities, and deliver tooling that reduces manual toil.
- Build scalable data pipelines and analytics solutions that consolidate security data sources into actionable metrics and reporting.
A day in the life You start by reviewing overnight on-call events and a pull request from a junior engineer building a new detection enrichment pipeline. Mid-morning, you lead a design review for a generative AI feature that automates incident triage recommendations. After lunch, you pair with a security analyst to understand a manual workflow ripe for automation. You close the day refactoring a critical infrastructure, then sync with your manager on technical priorities for the quarter.
About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Basic 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
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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