Senior Software Developer Engineer, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • $168,100 - $227,400 • Onsite

About The Position

The AWS Compliance & Security Assurance Engineering team is responsible for scaling AWS's ability to exceed the security and compliance expectations of regulators, auditors, and customers globally. They design and build services that withstand scrutiny from external regulators and AWS's most security-sensitive customers, leveraging Generative AI to enhance security and compliance capabilities. This multidisciplinary team includes software engineers, security engineers, technical product/program managers, data engineers, and compliance specialists. The role offers an opportunity to think big, invent, experiment, build, and have a material impact on cloud security and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations 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

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Making software work is just the start and you value talking about cattle-vs-pets, continuous resiliency and capacity testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic AI-based solutions that automate complex workflows and improve the efficiency of manually intensive operations, transforming how we handle compliance and security processes.
• Write high-quality code with thorough test coverage as you mentor other developers so they can learn from your CRs.
• Engineer systems for "Amazon Scale".
• Design highly available, secure, distributed systems of microservices, and improve them by consulting with peers and technical leaders.
• Work on Agile projects that have high visibility while making continuous improvements to planning, design, implementation, testing, and operations processes.
• Have full ownership and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.
• Influence projects or initiatives that span across multiple products and/or teams.
• Build and own internal services that identify and monitor security/compliance-relevant attributes of key infrastructure.
• Implement Generative AI solutions to automate and scale audit execution workflows.
• Streamline and scale execution of security and compliance audits/examinations of AWS services.
• Expand our ability to continuously monitor key security functions.
• Demonstrate a high bar for engineering excellence, lead the technical strategy, and provide technical advisory for adjacent teams.
• Write code that works at Amazon scale, mentor SDEs, contribute to solving complex engineering and business problems, and understand and improve agile processes.

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