Software Development Engineer III, Software Automation, Secure Tool Foundations

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead our application security automation initiatives. In this pivotal role, you will serve as the technical lead for a strategic focus area that will revolutionize how we model, document, and reference security posture across Amazon services. You will develop innovative solutions that unlock ambiguity and automation within the application security space, enabling builders to deliver secure solutions faster than ever before.

Working at the intersection of security and automation, you'll build systems that eliminate toil for both builders and application security engineers. Your technical expertise will drive the development of Service Profiles, providing a common mechanism to standardize security posture documentation and verification. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of security reviews in an AI-accelerated development environment, ensuring builders can deliver value to customers securely and efficiently.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable software solutions that automate security verification processes, eliminating manual toil for builders and application security engineers
- Lead technical architecture decisions for Service Profiles, ensuring solutions are technically sound, operationally performant, and highly maintainable
- Mentor peers and collaborate across teams to drive adoption of security automation best practices while maintaining high coding standards
- Develop innovative approaches to modeling and documenting security posture of Amazon services, creating systems that scale with the increasing pace of development
- Balance technical excellence with practical implementation, ensuring solutions address immediate needs while establishing foundations for future security automation

A day in the life
Your typical day mirrors that of a software development engineer, blending technical work with strategic collaboration. You'll write code to implement automation features, meet with customers to gather requirements, collaborate with peers on technical solutions, and mentor junior team members. Working in an Agile environment, you'll participate in standard ceremonies while dividing your time between strategic projects and tactical needs like operational support.

About the team
Our team is responsible for automating toil away from builders and application security engineers, reducing the time and effort required for security reviews while maintaining Amazon's high security standards. We own Service Profiles, which provides a common mechanism for modeling, documenting, and referencing the security posture of services and their scope. Our mission is foundational to enabling builders to move faster in the age of AI, where development velocity continues to accelerate. We partner across Amazon to ensure builders can deliver value to customers securely and efficiently.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve. Basic Qualifications: - 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 Preferred Qualifications: - 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Herndon - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually