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Software Development Engineer II, Security Automation

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Nov 19, 2025

Description

Do you thrive on driving complex technical initiatives to completion? Are you passionate about improving productivity through innovative tooling? If so, we’d love you to join us.

AWS Pentest Tooling Team operates across AWS to deliver pentests in fast, innovative and secure fashion. Our mission is to scale penetration testing by enabling pentesters to focus on hard problems. Our team builds the tooling and processes to help identify, track and mitigate potential security risks.

We are looking for a highly motivated full stack software engineer to help build and scale security automations. In this role, you will get to work with principal engineers and security engineers on a daily basis.


Key job responsibilities
This is a hands-on position where you'll be at the forefront of developing scalable security solutions at AWS. As a full stack developer, you'll own end-to-end solutions. Your work will involve complex systems incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning technologies to build an intelligent assistant that transforms security operations.

You will be involved in all parts of a software developer lifecycle - including software & system designing, coding, troubleshooting, testing, doing code reviews, testing, deployment and service maintenance. You'll design and build both client-side and server-side applications, create analytical workflows on latest platforms, and ensure seamless user experiences while maintaining robust backend functionality. Beyond coding, you'll participate in system design, troubleshooting, code reviews, testing, deployment, and service maintenance.

You have strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven, and can deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. You will work across Amazon engineering teams and business teams across the globe in planning, designing, executing and implementing this new platform across multiple geographies. You will also mentor junior engineers and work with the most sophisticated customers in the business to help them get the best results. You will be surrounded by world-class technical talent, who are incredibly passionate about our product.


About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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.

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 and 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.