Software Development Engineer, AWS Security Communications

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, AWS Security Communications. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Design and build scalable platforms and automation tools to support security communications workflows across AWS.

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AWS Security’s Security Communications (SecComms) team builds and operates the platforms, tools, and systems that enable Amazon’s security organization to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at scale. We support security events, ongoing security programs, vulnerability communications, and strategic initiatives that span multiple Amazon business units and AWS services. Our engineering products are the connective tissue between security findings, remediation owners, and the people responsible for keeping Amazon and its customers safe.

We are seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to drive the design, development, and operation of software systems that power security communications workflows, automation, and integrations at scale. This role is for a builder who brings engineering rigor to ambiguous problems, cares deeply about customer outcomes, and thrives working across organizational boundaries with security engineers, program managers, and communications professionals.

Security Communications serves as the engineering and operations hub for AWS-related security messaging, stakeholder notification, and communications tooling across the organization. Our team is responsible for building scalable platforms that enable consistent, reliable, and timely communication during high-severity security events, coordinated vulnerability disclosure, and routine security program operations. We are a cross-functional team — engineers work shoulder-to-shoulder with communications professionals, security operations personnel, AWS service owners, and executives. Candidates should be comfortable collaborating in this environment and contributing to discussions that span both technical and non-technical domains.

Key job responsibilities
Design & Delivery

* Design and deliver software features and improvements spanning the full lifecycle — including scoping, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance — for major portions of the SecComms platform.
* Work backwards from customer and stakeholder needs to define requirements and translate them into well-designed, maintainable software solutions.
* Design cohesive software implementations for difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks; bring clarity to ambiguous requirements and identify simple, extensible designs.
* Balance constraints across new feature development, technical debt, and operational reliability; limit short-term workarounds in favor of sustainable solutions.
* Produce high-quality, well-tested, documented code that adheres to the Amazon Code Bar and can be maintained and extended by teammates who did not author it.

Operational Excellence

* Demonstrate operational excellence in all work; own and operate production services with appropriate alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and on-call response.
* Actively participate in operational support; identify and resolve the root causes of operational issues rather than accepting the status quo.
* Routinely identify and execute on opportunities to improve team operational processes, automation, and tooling — do not settle for operational friction when it can be eliminated.
* Ensure that software failures are addressed with permanent fixes; avoid recurring incidents by addressing systemic causes.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Partnership

* Work closely with security engineers, program managers, communications leads, and partner teams to understand the business and customer value of your software.
* Operate effectively across team and organizational boundaries; collaborate with adjacent teams in an inclusive and constructive manner when integrations, dependencies, or shared priorities arise.
* Balance customer requirements with team requirements; make effective priority tradeoffs between feature development and operational work.
* Communicate clearly and proactively about work in progress, technical decisions, blockers, and scope changes to all relevant stakeholders — both technical and non-technical.

Mentorship & Engineering Culture

* Actively mentor engineers on the team; provide substantive, constructive code review feedback to peers including more senior engineers.
* Train new team members on how the SecComms software is constructed, tested, operated, and secured — and how it fits into the broader Amazon Security architecture.
* Document what the team’s software does, how it is constructed, and how it connects to the bigger picture; keep documentation current as systems evolve.
* Seek feedback actively and early; incorporate feedback into designs and implementations to continuously raise the engineering bar.
* Evaluate and apply industry innovations — new tools, design patterns, and AWS capabilities — where they improve team outcomes.

About the team
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.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Experience in one or more of the following domains: access- control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Herndon - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, AWS Security Communications at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Software Development Engineer, AWS Security Communications is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $144k-$194k a year.
The role is based in US, VA, Herndon.
The job was posted on October 22, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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