Software Development Engineer III, Software Automation, Secure Tool Foundations

Amazon • Herndon, VA

22h

About The Position

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead our
application security automation initiatives. In this pivotal role, you will
serve as the technical lead for a strategic focus area that will revolutionize
how we model, document, and reference security posture across Amazon services.
You will develop innovative solutions that unlock ambiguity and automation
within the application security space, enabling builders to deliver secure
solutions faster than ever before.

Working at the intersection of security and automation, you'll build systems
that eliminate toil for both builders and application security engineers. Your
technical expertise will drive the development of Service Profiles, providing a
common mechanism to standardize security posture documentation and verification.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of security reviews in
an AI-accelerated development environment, ensuring builders can deliver value
to customers securely and efficiently.

Your typical day mirrors that of a software development engineer, blending
technical work with strategic collaboration. You'll write code to implement
automation features, meet with customers to gather requirements, collaborate
with peers on technical solutions, and mentor junior team members. Working in an
Agile environment, you'll participate in standard ceremonies while dividing your
time between strategic projects and tactical needs like operational support.

Our team is responsible for automating toil away from builders and application
security engineers, reducing the time and effort required for security reviews
while maintaining Amazon's high security standards. We own Service Profiles,
which provides a common mechanism for modeling, documenting, and referencing the
security posture of services and their scope. Our mission is foundational to
enabling builders to move faster in the age of AI, where development velocity
continues to accelerate. We partner across Amazon to ensure builders can deliver
value to customers securely and efficiently.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable software solutions that automate security verification processes, eliminating manual toil for builders and application security engineers
• Lead technical architecture decisions for Service Profiles, ensuring solutions are technically sound, operationally performant, and highly maintainable
• Mentor peers and collaborate across teams to drive adoption of security automation best practices while maintaining high coding standards
• Develop innovative approaches to modeling and documenting security posture of Amazon services, creating systems that scale with the increasing pace of development
• Balance technical excellence with practical implementation, ensuring solutions address immediate needs while establishing foundations for future security automation

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level