Software Development Engineer II, Security Automation

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.

About the team

Amazon Security Experiences (ASE) helps Amazon's builders ship software securely. Our team, Security Automation, builds the automation and agentic experiences that bring this directly to builders and security engineers, so that securing software becomes continuous and increasingly automated. We are early, we are ambitious, and we are reinventing how one of the world's largest software organizations ships securely.

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.