Software Dev Engineer, AI Security

Amazon
New York, NY, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-05-14ONSITE

About the job

We are building a first-of-its-kind vulnerability auditing and review platform for LLM and foundational model integrated software — including components like foundational models, MCP servers, agents, and agent skills/capabilities. As an SDE 2 on this team, you will contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of security-focused software systems that help identify and mitigate vulnerabilities across AI-integrated applications. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of AI safety, security research, and platform engineering within one of Amazon's most innovative organizations.

Responsibilities

Building a massively scalable global security service that is core to all Amazon services.

Owning the definition of best practices for the software development lifecycle used by junior engineers, including its design, implementation, testing, and operational characteristics.

Working as part of cross-functional teams to develop secure solutions for our customers.

Owning the technology stack for one of the most secure and reliable services in all of Amazon.

Qualifications

Minimum

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

2+ years of non-intternship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience

1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred

3+ 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