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Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Security, ASCOT Engineering

Amazon· Amazon Web Services (AWS) / ASCOT Engineering
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USA, VA, Herndon$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Software Dev Engineer at ASCOT Engineering within AWS Security, responsible for designing, building, and delivering highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems. Focus on security automation, AI-powered tooling, incident response, and secure delivery platforms with ownership from design to production. Collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and influence product and architectural direction.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems on AWS, driving architectural decisions and owning the full lifecycle from design through production deployment.
  • Broad scope with cross-team influence: Work across the stack, lead technical design discussions, and collaborate with partner teams to define and deliver solutions that span team boundaries.
  • Enterprise scale with startup speed: Ship frequently to customers with high expectations for availability, performance, and security. Operate autonomously to deliver projects with team-level and cross-team scope.
  • Leverage AI/ML technologies and agentic AI development practices to automate detection, analysis, and response across security domains at scale. Use AI tools and best practices to multiply your velocity, quality, and creative output across greenfield and brownfield projects.
  • Have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define new product features, driving system architecture, and spearheading best practices that enable a quality product.
  • Mentor and coach junior engineers on engineering excellence and Amazon's Leadership Principles. Raise the bar for the team through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance — helping turn new engineers into strong builders.
  • The challenges sit at the intersection of security, AI, and customer trust at AWS scale; building security products from scratch and shipping at a rapid pace.

Qualifications

  • - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • - 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
  • - 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
  • - 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

Skills

Required:Software developmentSystem design / architectureObject Oriented DesignProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D; option for Supplemental life plans)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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