What happens when you combine startup speed with Amazon-scale impact? You get this team. Amazon Enterprise Security Products is a newly launched group building intelligent, cloud-agnostic security tools using AI-first development practices. Here, you build AI and you build with AI — at the same time. This is not a traditional SDE role. It's a chance to shape the future of security tooling with a small, fast team that ships like a startup and deploys like Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
Architect and drive AI powered security products end to end: Lead technical vision,
system design, and production delivery of large scale,
distributed systems that protect Amazon Business Customers. Set architectural direction and make high judgment decisions that shape the product roadmap. Leverage agentic AI development practices to accelerate every phase.
Own cross team technical leadership: Drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders. Decompose complex, ambiguous problems into actionable plans, unblock dependencies, and deliver cross team initiatives on time and at quality.
Define and advance AI/ML capabilities: Lead the design of agentic systems, RAG architectures, conversational interfaces, and intelligent automation pipelines. Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and make strategic build versus buy decisions.
Champion AI assisted engineering practices: Establish the team's AI first development workflows including agentic coding and experimental techniques. Drive adoption, measure impact on velocity and quality, and set the standard for how the team builds.
Shape product direction: Partner with security researchers, applied scientists, product managers, and UX designers to translate customer needs into technical strategy. Influence roadmap priorities with data and technical insight.
Build the foundation of a growing team: Establish development rigor, best practices, and technical review processes that set the bar for all future work. A ground floor opportunity to define how a high performing team operates.
Mentor and grow engineers: Develop junior and mid level engineers through pairing, design reviews, and hands on coaching. Foster a culture of ownership and continuous learning.
Drive operational excellence: Own reliability, performance, and security of your services. Lead on call rotations, drive root cause analysis, and implement systemic improvements.
Innovate with urgency: Prototype rapidly, validate with customers, and iterate. Bring a builder's mindset to an environment where the best idea wins.
A day in the life
You lead from the front on a startup paced, AI first security team. One moment you're whiteboarding agentic system architecture with principal engineers, the next you're deep in code shipping a feature alongside your team. You drive sprint planning, decompose ambiguous problems into clear technical paths, and unblock your team when things get hard. You author vision docs, build consensus across stakeholders, and mentor engineers who are growing fast. You don't just talk about AI assisted development, you establish the practices and set the standard. Every day you're building products and building a team.
About the team
Amazon Enterprise Security Products is built by builders who tackle challenges others might consider too ambitious. We're a small team where there are no layers between you and the decision, no waiting quarters to see your work reach customers. Every team member brings an owner's mentality. If there's a problem worth solving, we solve it. No mission is beyond reach, no detail beneath our attention. We move fast, we ship fast, and we learn from what we ship. This is where builders who want to make the impossible routine come to do their best work.
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.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience building agentic coding best practices (Ralph loop, parallelized agentic development, etc.)
- 5+ 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
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
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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, TX, Austin - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually