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 Amazons 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.
The NextGen Security Automation team is looking for a skilled and driven Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE III) to create autonomous security solutions that protect Amazons customers. As an SDE III you will leverage AI/ML technologies to automate detection analysis and remediation across proactive offensive and defensive security at scale. You will help build mentor and grow a new development team. Your work will directly enhance Amazons security posture by improving detection capabilities strengthening guardrails and advancing automated security tools.
Key job responsibilities
Architect design and develop AI/MLdriven security automation systems to detect and mitigate threats at scale.
Build and maintain scalable applications that enable adaptive realtime security detection analysis and remediation.
Develop automated systems integrated into Amazons security infrastructure.
Research and prototype new security solutions evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.
A day in the life
Your day kicks off sipping your morning coffee while diving into the future of autonomous security at Amazon. Youre not just coding youre architecting intelligent systems that drive proactive offensive and defensive security at Amazon scale. Working alongside top security engineers and scientists youre building automated systems that will protect millions of customers across one of the worlds largest tech ecosystems. Every line of code you write helps safeguard Amazons vast digital landscape. Its a fastpaced environment where youll work with advanced technology to build security solutions that protect millions of Amazon customers.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security 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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont 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 Amazons 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 its 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.
Training & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing training and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
The NextGen Security Automation team builds AIdriven security solutions that protect millions of Amazon customers while ensuring strong data governance. We thrive on innovation collaboration and solving complex security challenges at scale. DEI is central to our work we believe diverse perspectives drive stronger solutions. With a focus on automation and intelligence we push boundaries to keep Amazons customers and their data secure.
5 years of noninternship 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
5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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