Senior Security Engineer, Amazon Security Automation

Description

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.

Key job responsibilities

• Conduct security research on AI-powered mechanisms for discovering and protecting customer data and applications at scale effectively and efficiently.
• Ensure our agentic workflows deliver high impact security value.
• Develop automated systems integrated into Amazon’s security infrastructure.
• Research and prototype new security solutions, evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.

A day in the life

Our days are varied, and our remit is broad. You will scale security agents across Amazon, and you will ensure those agents apply up-to-date security expertise to their problems.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language.
• Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• Experience identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
• Experience in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
• Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.

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