Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, Robot Platform Security, Fauna
$185K–$250K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in software development, programming, and systems design or architecture; leadership experience also required.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads security engineering for Fauna’s robot platform, covering device software and updates, data handling, shared systems, cloud services, and incident response.
What you'll do
- Secure the robot’s boot chain, operating system, on-device software, and updates, including secure boot, hardening, isolation, access control, and secrets.
- Design privacy-conscious handling of sensed data and build secure defaults into shared libraries and build and release pipelines.
- Lead secure design reviews for cloud services and robot-platform incident response, driving fixes to root cause.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience; and experience designing and shipping production security or privacy controls.
Nice to have
- Experience securing embedded Linux or Android at the OS level, including SELinux or AppArmor policy, service sandboxing, kernel hardening, or hardware-backed key storage.
- Experience in robotics, automotive, connected home, privacy engineering, secure boot/device identity/OTA signing, threat modeling, or production cloud services.
Pay
184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
SELinux, AppArmor, Linux, Android, AWS
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