Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Enterprise Security Products

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

What happens when you combine startup speed with Amazon-scale impact? You get
this team. Amazon Enterprise Security Products is a newly launched group
building intelligent, cloud-agnostic security tools using AI-first development
practices. Here, you build AI and you build with AI — at the same time. This is
not a traditional SDE role. It's a chance to shape the future of security
tooling with a small, fast team that ships like a startup and deploys like
Amazon.

You lead from the front on a startup paced, AI first security team. One moment
you're whiteboarding agentic system architecture with principal engineers, the
next you're deep in code shipping a feature alongside your team. You drive
sprint planning, decompose ambiguous problems into clear technical paths, and
unblock your team when things get hard. You author vision docs, build consensus
across stakeholders, and mentor engineers who are growing fast. You don't just
talk about AI assisted development, you establish the practices and set the
standard. Every day you're building products and building a team.

Amazon Enterprise Security Products is built by builders who tackle challenges
others might consider too ambitious. We're a small team where there are no
layers between you and the decision, no waiting quarters to see your work reach
customers. Every team member brings an owner's mentality. If there's a problem
worth solving, we solve it. No mission is beyond reach, no detail beneath our
attention. We move fast, we ship fast, and we learn from what we ship. This is
where builders who want to make the impossible routine come to do their best
work.

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

• 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 8+ 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 building agentic coding best practices (Ralph loop, parallelized agentic development, etc.)

Nice To Haves

• 8+ 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

• Architect and drive AI powered security products end to end: Lead technical vision, system design, and production delivery of large scale, distributed systems that protect Amazon Business Customers. Set architectural direction and make high judgment decisions that shape the product roadmap. Leverage agentic AI development practices to accelerate every phase.
• Own cross team technical leadership: Drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders. Decompose complex, ambiguous problems into actionable plans, unblock dependencies, and deliver cross team initiatives on time and at quality.
• Define and advance AI/ML capabilities: Lead the design of agentic systems, RAG architectures, conversational interfaces, and intelligent automation pipelines. Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and make strategic build versus buy decisions.
• Champion AI assisted engineering practices: Establish the team's AI first development workflows including agentic coding and experimental techniques. Drive adoption, measure impact on velocity and quality, and set the standard for how the team builds.
• Shape product direction: Partner with security researchers, applied scientists, product managers, and UX designers to translate customer needs into technical strategy. Influence roadmap priorities with data and technical insight.
• Build the foundation of a growing team: Establish development rigor, best practices, and technical review processes that set the bar for all future work. A ground floor opportunity to define how a high performing team operates.
• Mentor and grow engineers: Develop junior and mid level engineers through pairing, design reviews, and hands on coaching. Foster a culture of ownership and continuous learning.
• Drive operational excellence: Own reliability, performance, and security of your services. Lead on call rotations, drive root cause analysis, and implement systemic improvements.
• Innovate with urgency: Prototype rapidly, validate with customers, and iterate. Bring a builder's mindset to an environment where the best idea wins.

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: Mid Level