Software Development Engineer II, AWS SecDevOps

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer II, AWS SecDevOps in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
The posting mentions AWS, Java and TypeScript among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
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Design and deliver internal security tooling and response systems at scale using modern web technologies and AWS services.

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AWS Security SecDevOps is a team of software development engineers responsible for shaping the future of internal security tooling within AWS Security. We build technologies at scale to help keep AWS and our customers secure. As a software development engineer on this team, you will use modern technologies and AWS services to empower AWS security response engineers to be more productive and improve AWS builder experience. Our team tackles challenging internal development efforts within AWS Security requiring scale, availability, and integration with numerous other services and tools. To delight our customers we incorporate real-time collaboration features and use purpose-built components and dependencies, while maintaining close contact with our customers throughout the development process.

You are a software developer who likes to deliver software solutions that solve business problems and delight your customers with efficiency and productivity gains. You have development experience with technologies like AWS, Java, TypeScript, React, Python, and SQL, though you don't need experience with all of those to start. You might be a front end developer, a back end developer, or a full stack engineer. If you have some background in security that is helpful, but not required.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and deliver software features across the full development lifecycle, from working backwards with customers through implementation, testing, deployment, and operations, for security response systems.
- Participate actively in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to teammates and coaching others on producing high-quality, maintainable code.
- Identify and resolve root causes of operational issues, ensuring the software you support remains reliable and that permanent fixes replace short-term workarounds.
- Collaborate with customers, other technical teams, and stakeholders to collect requirements, understand business and security needs, and translate those into clear technical solutions.
- Document the software you work on, how it is constructed and operated, and how it fits into the broader security ecosystem, and train new team members on these points.

A day in the life
You review the operational health of detection and response systems, checking metrics and addressing any service issues. You design and implement features across front end, back end and data warehousing. You participate in design discussions and code reviews with your teammates, and regularly meet with security response engineers and AWS builders to understand their pain points so you can build the right solutions. You also spend time mentoring teammates and writing documentation that helps others ramp up quickly.

About the team
AWS Security SecDevOps builds APIs, websites, and tools that power AWS Security Operations. Our mission is to make security response engineers more productive and keep AWS customers secure. We work closely with partner teams across AWS Security, and our systems integrate with numerous internal services and tools.

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust. We offer security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities across cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, whether your career is just starting, has followed a non-traditional path, or includes alternative experiences.

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
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of full stack development 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 building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Experience building complex highly-scalable systems that involve predictive models or applications of machine learning
- 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
- Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
- Experience working with React, TypeScript, building services with Java, Python and integrating with multiple systems.

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, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
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 II, AWS SecDevOps at Amazon rates 10 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.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Software Development Engineer II, AWS SecDevOps 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, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on October 20, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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This job starts at: $144k
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