Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Security
About the role
with paragraphs. - Key job responsibilities: list bullet points. - About The Team: maybe part of About the role or separate? Could be "About the team". But we only have allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So "About The Team" could go under About the role or maybe we treat as part of About the role. We'll include in About the role. - Basic Qualifications: list. - Preferred Qualifications: list. - Benefits: mention comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, etc. Also mention sign-on payments and RSUs? That's compensation. Pay: base salary range given: USA, VA, Herndon - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually. Also mention sign-on payments and RSUs. So we can include Pay section with that. - Benefits: list health insurance etc. - Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should not include Schedule section. - Skills: Not explicitly listed but could infer from qualifications. But we should only include if posting has real specific content for it. There's no separate Skills section. Could combine into Qualifications? We have Requirements and Qualifications headings. We could put Basic Qualifications under Requirements, Preferred Qualifications under Qualifications. Or we could treat Requirements as basic qualifications, Qualifications as preferred. We'll do that. - Skills: Not present, so omit. - About the role: include intro paragraphs and About The Team. - Responsibilities: list bullet points from Key job responsibilities. - Requirements: Basic Qualifications bullet list. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications bullet list. - Benefits: list benefits. - Pay: base salary range and sign-on payments/RSUs. Make sure not to include boilerplate like EEO, legal, accommodations, etc. Also remove duplicated lines (like repeated "Why Amazon Security?" etc). Also remove navigation, cookie, etc. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all bullet points from responsibilities, basic qualifications, preferred qualifications, benefits, pay. Let's extract. Responsibilities bullet points (from "Key job responsibilities"): - Architect and build AI-powered security applications and tooling — Design and implement LLM-based systems (leveraging Bedrock, SageMaker, and RAG patterns) for intelligent code scanning, severity assessments, and remediation alternatives. - Transform manual processes – Reimagine and deliver change from low throughput, human-dependent processes into high volume, machine speed pipelines without sacrificing key quality metrics. - Collaborate with and influence other leaders – The open source ecosystem has many stakeholders, and change requires listening and supporting but also influencing and leading through action. - Drive proactive security automation — Build systems that identify and remediate security issues in deliverables (code, threat models, content) without requiring explicit builder consent at every step, moving from reactive reviews to proactive prevention - Own operational excellence — Define and maintain SLAs, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response for services you own; participate in on-call rotation to support 24/7 availability - Lead technical design — Produce design documents, conduct trade-off analysis, and drive alignment across organizations. - Raise the engineering bar — Mentor security engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and contribute to team standards; proactively upskill existing SecEngs toward SDE capabilities where appropriate Basic Qualifications bullet list: - 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 - Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques - Experience contributing to open source projects (e.g., submitting pull requests, reviewing code, filing or triaging issues) and driving features or fixes upstream into third-party open source projects used in production systems. Preferred Qualifications bullet list: - 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 - Experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware - Experience maintaining or co-maintaining an open source repository, including issue handling, release management, and community moderation. - Experience with open source security practices such as vulnerability disclosure, dependency auditing, or the use of AI to analyze and remediate vulnerabilities. Benefits: from paragraph: "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." Also earlier: "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." That's more about opportunities, not benefits. But could be considered part of About the role/team. We'll keep in About the role. Pay: "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 ..." Then location: "USA, VA, Herndon - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually" Thus Pay section: base salary range 168,100 - 227,400 USD annually (Herndon, VA). Also mention sign-on payments and RSUs. We should not include duplicated lines like "At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences." appears multiple times. We'll include once. Now construct HTML. We'll have:About the role
At Amazon, Security is our highest priority. Are you interested in shaping the future of security for AWS, our customers, and the broader open source community? Do you want to be part of building something with massive impact? Our AWS Security Customer Outcomes Team is looking for strong software engineers as we help improve the security of open source software and the safety of the software supply chain generally. Today is just the beginning, and we want you to be part of our journey to innovate the way in which our users experience security. Our systems operate on a global scale across a diverse ecosystem of field teams, security requirements, and tooling. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to define, design, build, and operate AI-powered security solutions across the full pipeline of open source software usage. You will build intelligent automation that augments manual identification, analysis, and remediation workflows, enforces security guardrails for agents and human experts, and provides data-driven insights to AWS leadership. This is a high-autonomy role requiring the ability to work with both internal and external stakeholders to elicit key needs and independently develop solutions from whiteboard to production while mentoring and upskilling security engineers on the team.
About The Team: 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. 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. 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.
But we need to avoid too much duplication; but it's okay. Now Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- Architect and build AI-powered security applications and tooling — Design and implement LLM-based systems (leveraging Bedrock, SageMaker, and RAG patterns) for intelligent code scanning, severity assessments, and remediation alternatives.
- Transform manual processes – Reimagine and deliver change from low throughput, human-dependent processes into high volume, machine speed pipelines without sacrificing key quality metrics.
- Collaborate with and influence other leaders – The open source ecosystem has many stakeholders, and change requires listening and supporting but also influencing and leading through action.
- Drive proactive security automation — Build systems that identify and remediate security issues in deliverables (code, threat models, content) without requiring explicit builder consent at every step, moving from reactive reviews to proactive prevention
- Own operational excellence — Define and maintain SLAs, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response for services you own; participate in on-call rotation to support 24/7 availability
- Lead technical design — Produce design documents, conduct trade-off analysis, and drive alignment across organizations.
- Raise the engineering bar — Mentor security engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and contribute to team standards; proactively upskill existing SecEngs toward SDE capabilities where appropriate
Requirements
- 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
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques
- Experience contributing to open source projects (e.g., submitting pull requests, reviewing code, filing or triaging issues) and driving features or fixes upstream into third-party open source projects used in production systems.
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
- Experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU