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Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services

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21 hours ago
Herndon, VA, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$168k - $227k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship production-grade AI systems for enterprise customers across security, search, observability, and governance.
  • Develop orchestration layers for multi-agent systems, retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, and decision intelligence.
  • Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, APIs, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences.
  • Optimize systems for latency, reliability, observability, cost, and security.
  • Own complex cross-team technical challenges and lead architecture and design for enterprise systems.
  • Embed with customers, understand their operations, and partner with AWS service teams to deliver solutions.
  • Mentor engineers, influence teams and organizations, and turn technical patterns into reusable accelerators for the FDE practice.
  • Communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 7+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 7+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
  • Experience leading and influencing a team or organization.
  • Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.
  • Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences or working in similar environments.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Preferred: experience with machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics, natural language processing, or machine learning and large language model fundamentals.
  • Preferred: experience developing, deploying, and managing AI products at scale.
  • Preferred: experience with the AWS platform, web services, software development, or related technologies.
  • Preferred: experience in a customer-facing environment.
  • Preferred: experience with agentic and specification-driven development practices.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon compensation package.
  • The role is listed in Irvine, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Seattle, Washington.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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