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Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $143,700–$194,400🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and manage automated services to detect and mitigate advanced cybersecurity threats across Amazon's cloud infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC software development engineer (cloud security)

Builds

Automated security detection and mitigation workflows for AWS

Domain

Cloud security, big data processing, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

System design and architecture, software development, Python, C++, low-latency system design, big data processing, observability, automation, mentoring

Preferred skills

Full SDLC experience, large-scale data analytics, data warehousing, AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS)

Technologies

Python, C++, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS)

Responsibilities

Collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to build automated security workflows; Design scalable architectures for low-latency, big data processing; Improve system observability, performance, and efficiency; Raise the bar for testing, repeatability, and operational excellence; Mentor and develop teammates; Seek out and advocate for new technologies

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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