Amazon
Software Engineer, AppSTAR COMPASS
$144K–$194K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 2+ years system design or architecture; 1+ year software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ year 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 a new platform that continuously evaluates code changes for security risk and automatically routes cases needing human review.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, deploy, and operate platform features across their lifecycle.
- Build and tune automated and agentic security evaluation checks with security engineers.
- Provide operational support, investigate root causes, participate in code reviews, and document software.
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.
- At least 1 year developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; and at least 1 year 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.
- 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 agentic and automated evaluation logic to assess code changes for security risk.
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