Senior Software Development Engineer,NextGen Security, ZeroFriction

Overview

In this role you drive the technical vision and build mission-critical security systems that protect Amazon’s data at scale. You will collaborate across security and software teams to translate requirements into robust, high-performance software. You’ll tackle complex security challenges, shaping tools that automate responses and reduce manual work. This is a fast-paced, impact-focused opportunity to contribute to customer trust and system resilience across Amazon’s ecosystem.

Pay / Benefits

• work-life harmony
• flexibility
• training and career growth
• inclusive team culture

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership to automate parts of the pentest experience and improve efficiency
• Assess opportunities, prioritize quickly, and prototype solutions with cross-functional teams
• Design and implement scalable security software that mitigates risk across the Amazon ecosystem
• Develop code to reduce manual security processes by 50% or more and accelerate responses
• Partner with security and software teams to translate security requirements into high-performance solutions
• Prototype and deploy security tools protecting millions of customers and billions in transactions

Key requirements

• Experience programming in at least one modern language (Java, C++, or C#) with object-oriented design
• Professional software development experience (non-internship)
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team
• Experience leading architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, scaling) of new and/or existing systems
• Development experience within the last 3 years

• Strong verbal and written communication
• self-driven and results-oriented
• collaboration with talented engineers
• Object-oriented design
• Algorithms and data structures
• System architecture, reliability and scaling

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