Sr. Software Development Engineer, Enterprise Security Products

Amazon.com Inc

TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Customer Experience, Develop and Maintain Customers, Distributed Computing, Enterprise Protection, Healthcare, Large-Scale Systems, Machine Tool, Mentoring, On Call, Product Development, Product Planning, Protective Services, Prototyping, Retail, Root Cause Analysis, Scientific Research, Software Development, Software Engineering, Sprint Planning, Startup, System Architecture, Team Building, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy, Time Management, User Experience Design (UXD), Writing Skills
LOCATION
TX
POSTED
14 days ago

What happens when you combine startup speed with Amazon-scale impact? You get this team. Amazon Enterprise Security Products is a newly launched group building intelligent, cloud-agnostic security tools using AI-first development practices. Here, you build AI and you build with AI - at the same time. This is not a traditional SDE role. It"s a chance to shape the future of security tooling with a small, fast team that ships like a startup and deploys like Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

Architect and drive AI powered security products end to end: Lead technical vision, system design, and production delivery of large scale, distributed systems that protect Amazon Business Customers. Set architectural direction and make high judgment decisions that shape the product roadmap. Leverage agentic AI development practices to accelerate every phase.

Own cross team technical leadership: Drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders. Decompose complex, ambiguous problems into actionable plans, unblock dependencies, and deliver cross team initiatives on time and at quality.

Define and advance AI/ML capabilities: Lead the design of agentic systems, RAG architectures, conversational interfaces, and intelligent automation pipelines. Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and make strategic build versus buy decisions.

Champion AI assisted engineering practices: Establish the team"s AI first development workflows including agentic coding and experimental techniques. Drive adoption, measure impact on velocity and quality, and set the standard for how the team builds.

Shape product direction: Partner with security researchers, applied scientists, product managers, and UX designers to translate customer needs into technical strategy. Influence roadmap priorities with data and technical insight.

Build the foundation of a growing team: Establish development rigor, best practices, and technical review processes that set the bar for all future work. A ground floor opportunity to define how a high performing team operates.

Mentor and grow engineers: Develop junior and mid level engineers through pairing, design reviews, and hands on coaching. Foster a culture of ownership and continuous learning.

Drive operational excellence: Own reliability, performance, and security of your services. Lead on call rotations, drive root cause analysis, and implement systemic improvements.

Innovate with urgency: Prototype rapidly, validate with customers, and iterate. Bring a builder"s mindset to an environment where the best idea wins.

A day in the life

You lead from the front on a startup paced, AI first security team. One moment you"re whiteboarding agentic system architecture with principal engineers, the next you"re deep in code shipping a feature alongside your team. You drive sprint planning, decompose ambiguous problems into clear technical paths, and unblock your team when things get hard. You author vision docs, build consensus across stakeholders, and mentor engineers who are growing fast. You don"t just talk about AI assisted development, you establish the practices and set the standard. Every day you"re building products and building a team.

About the team

Amazon Enterprise Security Products is built by builders who tackle challenges others might consider too ambitious. We"re a small team where there are no layers between you and the decision, no waiting quarters to see your work reach customers. Every team member brings an owner"s mentality. If there"s a problem worth solving, we solve it. No mission is beyond reach, no detail beneath our attention. We move fast, we ship fast, and we learn from what we ship. This is where builders who want to make the impossible routine come to do their best work.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles