Amazon
Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Security, ASCOT Engineering
$144K–$194K
Herndon, VA · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of SDE or related occupational experience; 1+ years developing large-scale software using a listed language; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate AWS-scale security products, automation, and distributed systems that protect customers across incident response, supply chain security, and secure delivery.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and own secure, scalable distributed systems through production deployment and operation.
- Use AI/ML and agentic AI practices to automate security detection, analysis, and response.
- Lead technical design, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers through reviews and technical guidance.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; and 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- 1+ years using AI tools to accelerate software development workflows.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, C#, C++, Java, Perl
AI focus
Leverage AI/ML and agentic AI to automate security detection, analysis, and response; use AI tools to accelerate development workflows; build tooling for securing AI and agentic workloads.
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