Security Software Engineer Jobs in Washington
Security Software Engineer jobs in Washington are among the most active in the country, concentrated in cloud infrastructure, defense contracting, and enterprise software across seniority levels from entry-level to principal engineer. Seattle, Bellevue, and Redmond anchor the market, with major employers including Microsoft, Amazon, and Boeing maintaining large, sustained security engineering teams across the state. The most sought-after specializations in Washington are cloud security architecture, application security, and secure software development lifecycle engineering. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Looking to build high-scale Authentication and Authorization services within Amazon World Wide Operations Security? Passionate about protecting customer data? Come join us as we craft impactful products and great experiences across a wide surface of customers!
Amazon’s mission is to be ‘Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company’ and our team is an essential part of that mission. We enable Customer Service and other businesses with rigorous authentication of Customer Service Agents and retail customers to hold a high bar bar for securing access to customer data. This includes password-auth, token-based MFA, rules-based/fine-grained/contextual authorization, operations and governance systems. Our team lives in a multi-dimensional world of delivering for customers, addressing risks and continually making our products and experiences more secure.
We’re seeking Software Development Engineers to drive the next generation of authentication, solving problems for which there are no off-the-shelf solutions. In this role, you’ll be working with a group of strong engineers in pursuit of timely and secure authentication and authorization services on top of effective data sovereignty, compliance with regional privacy regulations, integration with a wide array of applications and services, and delivery of a fantastic customer experience.
Key job responsibilities
The team owns multiple high-availability, low-latency services (Tier-1) and hold ourselves accountable to rigorous service-level objectives and design & code quality standards. Our tech stack ranges across multiple AWS public offerings and includes Java, Python, Fargate, Typescript, DynamoDB, Lambdas, SQS, and more. We grow careers here — we look for every opportunity to get the correct work, complexity and challenges in front of team members so they can realize the growth they’re seeking.
About the team
CSIAM team places a premium on caring for each other and driving an optimal work/life balance — we work hard to deliver for customers, and we support each other closely to make sure we have time to enjoy friends, family and the fruits of our labor. We’re based in Seattle and support products, services and teams around the globe.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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 and 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.
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
- 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 QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Looking to build high-scale Authentication and Authorization services within Amazon World Wide Operations Security? Passionate about protecting customer data? Come join us as we craft impactful products and great experiences across a wide surface of customers!
Amazon’s mission is to be ‘Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company’ and our team is an essential part of that mission. We enable Customer Service and other businesses with rigorous authentication of Customer Service Agents and retail customers to hold a high bar bar for securing access to customer data. This includes password-auth, token-based MFA, rules-based/fine-grained/contextual authorization, operations and governance systems. Our team lives in a multi-dimensional world of delivering for customers, addressing risks and continually making our products and experiences more secure.
We’re seeking Software Development Engineers to drive the next generation of authentication, solving problems for which there are no off-the-shelf solutions. In this role, you’ll be working with a group of strong engineers in pursuit of timely and secure authentication and authorization services on top of effective data sovereignty, compliance with regional privacy regulations, integration with a wide array of applications and services, and delivery of a fantastic customer experience.
Key job responsibilities
The team owns multiple high-availability, low-latency services (Tier-1) and hold ourselves accountable to rigorous service-level objectives and design & code quality standards. Our tech stack ranges across multiple AWS public offerings and includes Java, Python, Fargate, Typescript, DynamoDB, Lambdas, SQS, and more. We grow careers here — we look for every opportunity to get the correct work, complexity and challenges in front of team members so they can realize the growth they’re seeking.
About the team
CSIAM team places a premium on caring for each other and driving an optimal work/life balance — we work hard to deliver for customers, and we support each other closely to make sure we have time to enjoy friends, family and the fruits of our labor. We’re based in Seattle and support products, services and teams around the globe.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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 and 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.
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
- 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 QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
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Security Software Engineer Job Market in Washington
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Who's Hiring
- Amazon16
- Apple11
- Amazon Web Services5
- Google3
- OpenAI2
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Retail
- Science & Research
- Electronics & Hardware
- Banking & Financial Services
What Washington Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in security software engineer jobs across Washington.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a closely related engineering field
- Hands-on experience with secure software development lifecycle practices and threat modeling
- Proficiency in at least one major cloud security platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Industry certification such as CISSP, CEH, or Security+ recognized by Washington employers
- Demonstrated experience with vulnerability assessment tools, penetration testing, or code review
- Ability to obtain or maintain a federal security clearance for defense-sector roles in Washington
Security Software Engineer Jobs in Washington: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a security software engineer in Washington?
Washington does not require a state-issued license to work as a security software engineer, so the path runs through education and industry credentials. Most employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or cybersecurity. From there, certifications like CISSP, CEH, or CompTIA Security+ strengthen a candidacy significantly. Washington's concentration of cloud and defense employers means hands-on cloud security or clearance-eligible experience accelerates hiring considerably.
How much do security software engineers make in Washington?
Security software engineers in Washington earn a median of about $166,540 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $96,810 for the lowest 10% to over $255,350 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire security software engineers in Washington?
Employers hiring security software engineers in Washington right now include Amazon, Apple, and Amazon Web Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Washington's dense concentration of cloud, aerospace, and defense organizations means security engineering roles appear across a wide range of employer sizes and sectors throughout the state.
Which Washington cities have the most security software engineer jobs?
Seattle, Bellevue, and Redmond have the most security software engineer openings in Washington. Seattle and Bellevue drive the majority of listings through their headquarters-dense tech ecosystem anchored by companies like Amazon and Microsoft, while Redmond's concentration of enterprise software and defense contractors generates consistent demand outside the core Seattle metro.
Are there remote security software engineer jobs in Washington?
Yes, and more than most engineering fields, because security software engineering is primarily code-and-analysis work that translates well to distributed teams. About 60% of security software engineer openings tied to Washington are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting broad industry acceptance of distributed security teams. Application security and cloud security roles are the sub-areas most frequently posted as fully remote.
How can I get hired as a security software engineer in Washington with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a software engineering or IT role with a security component, then moving laterally once you have foundational credentials. Washington employers including Microsoft and Amazon run university recruit and early-career programs that accept new graduates into security-adjacent engineering tracks. Building a portfolio of capture-the-flag competitions, open-source security tooling contributions, or a CompTIA Security+ certification gives candidates without professional experience a concrete edge when applying to these programs.
Where can I find and apply to security software engineer jobs in Washington?
You can find and apply to security software engineer jobs in Washington on Migrate Mate, which lists current Washington openings across industries and experience levels. Find the roles that fit your background and apply directly from the listing.
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