Software Dev Engineer II, Enterprise Security Products (AI)

TL;DR

Software Dev Engineer II, Enterprise Security Products (AI): Design, build, and ship AI-powered enterprise security products with an accent on agentic AI development practices and end-to-end full-stack delivery across large-scale distributed systems. Focus on building intelligent, cloud-agnostic security experiences (including RAG pipelines, REST APIs, and automation workflows) while ensuring operational excellence through reliability, performance, and security ownership.

Company

Amazon Enterprise Security Products builds intelligent, cloud-agnostic security tools using AI-first development practices.

What you will do

• Own the full lifecycle (architecture to production deployment) of large-scale, multi-tier distributed systems that protect AWS customers.
• Build end-to-end full-stack experiences: frontend interfaces, backend services, REST APIs, and intelligent middleware.
• Design and implement agentic architectures, conversational interfaces, and automation workflows for AI-first security at scale.
• Use AI-assisted and agentic coding practices to write, test, review, and ship code faster across greenfield and brownfield projects.
• Plan, estimate, and drive delivery with phased rollouts; take autonomy and accountability for outcomes.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive root-cause analysis to raise reliability, performance, and security standards.

Requirements

• Location: Austin, TX, USA
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, scaling) for new and existing systems.
• 1+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of experience with AI-assisted or agentic coding practices.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience (coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, operations).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience building agentic coding processes (e.g., Ralph loop, parallelized agentic development).

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work hours and arrangements to support work-life harmony.
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) included in the Amazon compensation package.
• Ongoing learning, knowledge-sharing, and career-advancing resources.
• On-call rotations and a high-trust environment with ownership and accountability.

Hiring process

• Interviews and evaluation of technical fit for building and shipping AI-powered security products.
• Accommodation support available during application and hiring if needed.

Salary: 143,700.00–194,400.00 USD annually

Location: Austin, TX, USA