Software Development Engineer, Corporate Services Security

Amazon • Arlington, VA

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About The Position

Amazon's Corporate Services Security (CPSS) team is responsible for securing the applications, infrastructure, and data developed across People eXperience and Technology (PXT), Legal, Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), and Communications & Corporate Responsibility (CCR). We partner with builder teams to minimize security risk while serving as a business enabler — and we build the tooling and automation that makes high-quality security findings available earlier in the development lifecycle.

We are seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join CPSS Foundations, a newly formed horizontal team responsible for building the infrastructure and mechanisms that operationalize security strategy across CPSS customers. Foundations focuses on three problem spaces: operational excellence (internal and external) to ensure the most impactful security items get prioritized by limited resources; third-party risk management to proactively help customers manage their 3P risk; and non-tech security enablement to make security accessible across all skill sets and job families. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape the direction of a new team and build systems that have lasting strategic impact across the organization.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services

Nice To Haves

• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience building automation workflows and pipeline systems that reduce manual operational burden at scale
• Experience leveraging AI/ML capabilities — including large language models (LLMs) or generative AI — to build intelligent tooling, automate decision-making, or surface actionable insights
• Experience in security engineering, application security, or working closely with security teams on risk management programs

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable mechanisms that operationalize security strategy for CPSS customers across PXT, Legal, FGBS, and CCR.
• Develop tooling and automation to surface security risk signals, prioritize findings, and drive operational excellence across security and customer teams.
• Build systems that support third-party risk management, enabling customers to proactively identify and mitigate 3P risk at scale.
• Create non-technical security enablement mechanisms that make security accessible to all job families and skill sets across the organization.
• Partner closely with CPSS security engineers, AmSec teams, and customer teams to understand pain points and translate them into durable, systemic solutions.
• Define and drive technical direction for Foundations, contributing to architecture decisions, engineering standards, and roadmap prioritization.
• Operate with a high degree of ownership — from design through deployment and ongoing operations — with a strong bias for measurable outcomes.

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed