Amazon
Software Engineer, AppSTAR COMPASS
$144K–$194K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; and 1+ years of large-scale software development and Object Oriented Design experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate a new platform that automatically evaluates code changes for security risk and routes cases needing human review.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, deploy, and operate security-risk evaluation and routing features across their full lifecycle.
- Build and tune automated and agentic evaluation checks with security engineers; investigate evaluation errors and operational issues.
- Participate in design reviews and code reviews, provide on-call support, and document the system.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
- 1+ years of experience developing large-scale software 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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
AI focus
Build and tune automated, agentic checks that continuously evaluate code changes for security risk and route changes requiring human review.
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