Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Security Automation

Job ID: Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited

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.

The NextGen Security Automation team is looking for a skilled and driven Software Development Engineer (SDE II) to build autonomous security solutions that protect Amazon's customers. As an SDE II, you will leverage AI/ML technologies to automate detection, analysis, and response across proactive, offensive, and defensive security at scale. Your work will directly enhance Amazon's security posture by improving detection capabilities, strengthening guardrails, and advancing automated security tools.

• Design and develop AI/ML-driven security automation systems to detect and mitigate threats at scale.
• Build and maintain scalable applications that enable real-time threat detection and response.
• Collaborate with security teams to enhance existing security practices, guardrails, and tooling.
• Develop automated detection systems integrated into Amazon's security infrastructure.
• Research and prototype new security solutions, evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.

A day in the life: Your day kicks off sipping your morning coffee while diving into the future of autonomous security at Amazon. You're not just coding - you're architecting intelligent systems that drive proactive, offensive, and defensive security at Amazon scale. Working alongside top security engineers and scientists, you're building automated systems that will protect millions of customers across one of the world's largest tech ecosystems. It's a fast-paced environment where you'll work with advanced technology to build security solutions that protect millions of Amazon customers.

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with Cloud services such as Lambda, Bedrock and SageMaker
• Experience building and integrating AI/ML-driven applications

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