Amazon
Senior Software Engineer, AppSTAR COMPASS
$168K–$227K
Austin, TX · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three specified experience areas; no stated alternative.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build a greenfield, event-driven platform that evaluates code changes for security risk, automates routine reviews, and routes higher-risk changes to security engineers.
What you'll do
- Design and build the evaluation platform, including its data flow, pipeline, services, and storage.
- Develop and tune automated and agentic checks, and maintain accurate decisions at scale.
- Partner with security and platform teams to implement risk criteria, review tooling, integrations, and developer-facing visibility.
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 leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
AI focus
Build agentic and automated systems to evaluate code changes for security risk and automate routine security reviews.
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