Sr. Software Development Engineer, Enterprise Security Products

Amazon • Austin, TX

17d • $168,100 - $227,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Enterprise Security Products is a newly launched group building intelligent, cloud-agnostic security tools using AI-first development practices. This role is a chance to shape the future of security tooling with a small, fast team that ships like a startup and deploys like Amazon. The team builds AI and builds with AI simultaneously. This is not a traditional SDE role.

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
• Experience building agentic coding best practices (Ralph loop, parallelized agentic development, etc.)

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

• Architect and drive AI powered security products end to end, including technical vision, system design, and production delivery of large scale, distributed systems.
• Set architectural direction and make high judgment decisions that shape the product roadmap, leveraging agentic AI development practices.
• Own cross team technical leadership, driving execution across multiple teams and stakeholders, decomposing complex problems, unblocking dependencies, and delivering initiatives on time.
• Define and advance AI/ML capabilities, leading 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, establishing AI first development workflows, driving adoption, measuring impact, and setting standards.
• Shape product direction by partnering 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 by establishing development rigor, best practices, and technical review processes.
• Mentor and grow junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, design reviews, and hands-on coaching.
• Foster a culture of ownership and continuous learning.
• Drive operational excellence by owning reliability, performance, and security of services, leading on call rotations, driving root cause analysis, and implementing systemic improvements.
• Innovate with urgency by prototyping rapidly, validating with customers, and iterating.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree