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.
We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our NextGen Security Automation team. As a security engineer, you will leverage AI/ML technologies to automate detection, analysis, and remediation across proactive, offensive security at scale. You will work closely with the software development team to enhance Amazon’s security posture by improving detection capabilities, strengthening guardrails, and advancing automated security tools.
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 (non‑internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language.
- Experience (non‑internship) in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
- Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
- Experience (non‑internship) 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‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. We value your passion and commitment to discovering, inventing, simplifying, and building. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.
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