Drimva

Amazon

Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AI Security

$185K–$250K

New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026

Experience
5+ years for each of the three specified experience areas; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead is also required.

About the job

Build and lead development of scalable security services and secure solutions across Amazon, including services supporting AI models, agents, and applications.

What you'll do

  • Build a globally scalable security service and own its technology stack.
  • Define software development lifecycle best practices and lead cross-functional secure engineering projects.
  • Lead technical design and architecture, ensuring system quality, scalability, performance, and reliability.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leader of an engineering team.

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Pay

USD 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 annually (base salary)

AI focus

Accelerate delivery of safe and secure AI models, agents, and applications through security engineering.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)