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# Software Development Engineer, AWS Security

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $143,700.0 - $194,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Computer Programming, Data Warehousing, Software Design Patterns, Amazon DynamoDB, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Cyber Threat Analysis, Information Technology, Build Process, Functional Programming, Software Coding, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Software Version Control, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/6025D2FB5BD245D79C27748F8DB4179B/job/

## About the Role

* 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
 * 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
 * Experience programming with at least one software programming language
 * Knowledge of Python and/or C++ programming, * 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
 * Experience with large-scale data analytics and data warehousing
 * Experience processing, filtering, and presenting large quantities (hundreds of millions/billions of rows) of data
 * Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
 * Experience with AWS Services including EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS

## Description

Come and build innovative services that protect our cloud from advanced security threats!

As a Software Development Engineer on our team, you'll help build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon's infrastructure, including advanced persistent threats. You'll work with security engineers, data scientists, and other software development engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at a massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and help preserve our customers' trust in us. You'll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats - not many teams can say that!

We're looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers. We want someone who will help us amplify the positive and inclusive team culture we've been building., * Collaborate with data scientists and security engineers to build automated security detection and mitigation workflows

 * Design scalable architectures for low-latency, big data processing
 * Improve the observability, performance, and efficiency of our existing systems
 * Raise the bar for testing, repeatability, automation, and operational excellence
 * Mentor and develop teammates, both technically and professionally
 * Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technologies


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