Software Development Engineer II, Security Automation

About the role

We are reinventing how Amazon's builders and security engineers handle security review and issue management. The Security Automation team owns the automations and agentic experiences at the center of that work. We build new systems, integrate with existing ones, and build the services that power our agents. Our goal is to help builders and security engineers understand the security posture of a service quickly and with confidence, and to build tools that automatically fix security vulnerabilities.

As a Software Development Engineer II, you will own the design and delivery of major pieces of this work, such as the services behind our agents, new automations, and the integrations that connect them to existing systems. You will take problems that are not fully defined, design the solution, and take it to production. You will also help set the technical direction for your area and mentor other engineers on the team.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate features and components of agentic experiences, from requirements through production.
• Write design documents for your area, evaluate tradeoffs, and make sound decisions on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Build new systems and integrate with existing ones to reduce security overhead and speed up issue resolution.
• Work backwards from customers, partnering with your team and stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into well scoped solutions.
• Write high quality, well tested code, and review the code and designs of your peers.
• Take part in the on call rotation and drive operational excellence for the systems you own.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and help raise the team's engineering bar.

A day in the life

You spend most of your time designing and building. You work through designs with your teammates, write and review code, talk with the customers who use what you build, and keep the systems you own healthy in production.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security Experiences values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

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.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future. You will find endless knowledge sharing, training, and other career advancing resources here.

Work/Life Balance

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 is nothing we can't achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• 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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually