Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Security
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for software development, programming, and system design or architecture; mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience required.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Leads the design, development, delivery, and operation of secure, scalable software systems, while setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.
What you'll do
- Lead multi-engineer software projects and guide architectural decisions for performant, secure systems.
- Define technical strategies with partner teams and establish engineering best practices.
- Maintain operational excellence through telemetry, alarms, runbooks, root-cause analysis, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leader of an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
AI focus
Uses generative artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the software development workflow.
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