Drimva

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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