Amazon

Senior Software Development Engineer, Leo Security

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Herndon, VA, USA or Arlington, VA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$168k - $227k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own architecture decisions and provide system-wide design guidance for secure, scalable, operationally simple services.
  • Design and build distributed systems for telemetry ingestion, real-time correlation, agent execution, and observability.
  • Replace manual security operations with software for incident response, threat analysis, offensive security testing, and detection authoring.
  • Build evaluation and backtesting infrastructure to validate models and detections before production deployment.
  • Create deployment guardrails that prevent human error in high-consequence environments.
  • Partner with applied scientists to turn research prototypes into production capabilities.
  • Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and establish standards for code quality.
  • Operate the platform and own operational health, incident response, and service reliability.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Candidates must be U.S. citizens due to applicable export control laws and regulations.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of the team's work-life balance culture.
  • The package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation is determined by experience, qualifications, and location.

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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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