Software Development Engineer, NextGen Security Automation

Description

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.

The NextGen Security Automation team is looking for a skilled and driven Software Development Engineer (SDE II) to build autonomous security solutions that protect Amazon's customers. As an SDE II, you will leverage AI/ML technologies to automate security issue remediation at Amazon scale.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop AI/ML-driven system capable to autonomously remediate security issues.
- Build and maintain a suite of AI agents capable to perform a set of tasks to safely rolling out in production security fixes at scale.
- Collaborate with security teams to enhance existing security practices, guardrails, and tooling.
- Integrate those new solutions into Amazon security ecosystem
- Research and prototype new security solutions, evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.

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, 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.

Training & Career Growth

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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

The NextGen Security Automation team builds AI-driven 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 Amazon's customers and their data secure.

We are building a new team to re-think how we address security issues at Amazon. This team will be responsible to build autonomous AI-driven solutions to remediate security issues at Amazon scale.

Basic qualifications

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice () to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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