Senior Software Development Engineer, Autonomous AI Security

Amazon • Austin, TX

3d • $168,100 - $227,400 • Onsite

About The Position

The Autonomous AI Security team is looking for a skilled and driven Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE III) to create autonomous security solutions that protect Amazon’s customers. As an SDE III, you will leverage AI/ML technologies to automate detection, analysis, and remediation across proactive, offensive, and defensive security at scale. You will help build, mentor, and grow a new development team. Your work will directly enhance Amazon’s security posture by improving detection capabilities, strengthening guardrails, and advancing automated security tools.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop AI/ML-driven security automation systems to detect and mitigate threats at scale.
• Build and maintain scalable applications that enable adaptive, real-time security detection, analysis, and remediation.
• Develop automated systems integrated into Amazon’s security infrastructure.
• Research and prototype new security solutions, evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree