Amazon

Senior Software Developer Engineer, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Amazon$168K — $227K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar field
  • Over 7 years of professional software development experience
  • 7+ years of programming experience in at least one language
  • Comprehensive experience across the full software development life cycle
  • 5+ years of experience in system design or architecture
  • Proven mentoring or leadership experience in engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement AI-based solutions to automate workflows
  • Write high-quality code with thorough test coverage and mentor developers
  • Engineer systems designed for scale and resilience at Amazon level
  • Consult with peers to enhance the design of distributed microservices
  • Participate in Agile projects focusing on high visibility and improvement
  • Take full ownership of the systems built based on real-time data
  • Streamline execution of security and compliance audits

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement
  • Mental Health Support initiatives
Full Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will influence projects or initiatives that span across multiple products and/or teams. You will build and own internal services that identify and monitor security/compliance-relevant attributes of key infrastructure. A key focus will be implementing Generative AI solutions to automate and scale our audit execution workflows, making the process more efficient and consistent. You will streamline and scale execution of security and compliance audits/examinations of AWS services, and expand our ability to continuously monitor key security functions. You will demonstrate a high bar for engineering excellence, lead the technical strategy, and provide technical advisory for adjacent teams. You will write code that works at Amazon scale, mentor SDEs, contribute to solving complex engineering problems as well as business problems, and understand and improve our agile processes to help us evolve a vision of compliance and security at AWS.

Key job responsibilities

In this role you will:
• Design and implement agentic AI-based solutions that automate complex workflows and improve the efficiency of manually intensive operations, transforming how we handle compliance and security processes.
• Write high-quality code with thorough test coverage as you mentor other developers so they can learn from your CRs.
• Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale".
• Realize that making software work is just the start and you value talking about cattle-vs-pets, continuous resiliency and capacity testing.
• Truly care about designing highly available, secure, distributed systems of microservices, then you will make them even better by consulting with peers and technical leaders.
• Work on Agile projects that have high visibility while making continuous improvements to planning, design, implementation, testing, and operations processes.
• Have full ownership and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

- 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations 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

- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

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, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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