Amazon's Corporate Services Security (CPSS) team is responsible for securing the applications, infrastructure, and data developed across People e Xperience and Technology (PXT), Legal, Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), and Communications & Corporate Responsibility (CCR). We partner with builder teams to minimize security risk while serving as a business enabler — and we build the tooling and automation that makes high-quality security findings available earlier in the development lifecycle.

We are seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join CPSS Foundations, a newly formed horizontal team responsible for building the infrastructure and mechanisms that operationalize security strategy across CPSS customers. Foundations focuses on three problem spaces: operational excellence (internal and external) to ensure the most impactful security items get prioritized by limited resources; third-party risk management to proactively help customers manage their 3P risk; and non-tech security enablement to make security accessible across all skill sets and job families. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape the direction of a new team and build systems that have lasting strategic impact across the organization.

Key job responsibilities
Design, build, and operate scalable mechanisms that operationalize security strategy for CPSS customers across PXT, Legal, FGBS, and CCR.
Develop tooling and automation to surface security risk signals, prioritize findings, and drive operational excellence across security and customer teams.
Build systems that support third-party risk management, enabling customers to proactively identify and mitigate 3P risk at scale.
Create non-technical security enablement mechanisms that make security accessible to all job families and skill sets across the organization.
Partner closely with CPSS security engineers, Am Sec teams, and customer teams to understand pain points and translate them into durable, systemic solutions.
Define and drive technical direction for Foundations, contributing to architecture decisions, engineering standards, and roadmap prioritization.
Operate with a high degree of ownership — from design through deployment and ongoing operations — with a strong bias for measurable outcomes.

A day in the life
You start your morning reviewing the latest signals from the operational excellence dashboards our team owns — a metric has shifted for one of the CPSS customer orgs, and you dig into the data to understand whether it reflects a systemic gap or a one-time event. You sync with a CPSS security engineer who is embedded with a customer team to get context on a recurring third-party risk pattern they've been seeing. Together, you scope a new mechanism that could automate the triage and escalation workflow they've been doing manually.

In the afternoon, you're in a design review with partners from Am Sec, walking through the architecture for a new non-tech enablement feature that will help non-engineering job families complete security tasks without requiring deep technical knowledge. You close the day writing a doc that captures the decision rationale — because on Foundations, the work you do today becomes the foundation others build on tomorrow.

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

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 & 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.

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.

Basic 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
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience building automation workflows and pipeline systems that reduce manual operational burden at scale
• Experience leveraging AI/ML capabilities — including large language models (LLMs) or generative AI — to build intelligent tooling, automate decision-making, or surface actionable insights
• Experience in security engineering, application security, or working closely with security teams on risk management programs

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually