Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS Vulnerability Management (AVM)
$144K–$194K
Arlington, VA · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience; 2+ years of security engineering experience; preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience and 2+ years building security tooling and guardrails.
About the job
Build and maintain cloud-scale AWS vulnerability management services that identify, track, and help mitigate security risks across AWS.
What you'll do
- Design and build scalable security services and vulnerability management systems.
- Develop machine learning-based vulnerability prediction and prioritization mechanisms.
- Partner with AWS service, compliance, and application security teams to integrate controls and manage security exposures.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- 2+ years of security engineering experience, with hands-on AWS experience (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM).
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- 2+ years of experience building and automating builder-facing security tooling and guardrails at scale.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, Big Data, Microservices, AWS Services, EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM
AI focus
Design and implement machine learning-based vulnerability prediction and prioritization mechanisms.
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