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Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services

Amazon

Location

Irvine, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/15/2026

Compensation

$168,100 - $227,400 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.1% approval+9% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

This senior engineer role focuses on building and optimizing AI systems that enhance customer operations. You will work within the Field Innovation team at AWS, directly impacting enterprise customers by developing production-grade products powered by advanced AI technologies. The position emphasizes mentorship and technical leadership, allowing you to shape the technical direction of projects. You will engage in complex problem-solving while collaborating with a diverse team of engineers and scientists.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 7+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language
  • 7+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems
  • Experience as a mentor or tech lead in an engineering team
  • Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience in machine learning, data mining, or natural language processing
  • Experience developing and managing AI products at scale
  • Experience with the AWS platform or related technologies
  • Experience working in a customer-facing environment

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical direction for projects and mentor engineers on the team.
  • Build orchestration layers for multi-agent systems and workflow automation.
  • Integrate foundation models and customer data sources into cohesive AI experiences.
  • Optimize systems for latency, reliability, observability, cost, and security.
  • Lead design for systems that enterprise customers depend on.
  • Collaborate with customers to understand their operations and needs.
  • Turn discovered patterns into reusable accelerators for the FDE practice.

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

3,290

FY2026

Approval rate

99.1%

FY2026

LCA certified

32,937

FY2026

Entry-level share

10.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+9%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-44%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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