Amazon

Software Engineer, AppSTAR COMPASS

$144K–$194K

Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026

Experience: 3+ years non-internship professional software development; 2+ years non-internship design or architecture; 1+ year software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year large-scale software development 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 automatically evaluates code changes for security risk and routes changes needing further scrutiny to human reviewers.

What you'll do

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate platform features throughout their lifecycle.
Develop and tune automated and agentic security evaluation checks with security engineers.
Participate in design reviews, code reviews, on-call support, root-cause analysis, and documentation.

What they ask for

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 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, 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 evaluation logic, including agentic checks, to assess code changes for security risk.

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