Security Engineering Manager, SDO Application Security

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Overview

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.

Responsibilities

  • Your team has an emphasis on fast paced, highly visible engagements. You will be comfortable with a high level of ambiguity, exercising strong ownership, and be able to make high judgement decisions focusing on what is best for Amazon's Customers. Additionally, you should thrive in navigating complex stakeholder engagements a skill integral to the teams success.
  • You will lead the strategic direction and evolution of Application Security review team/s, including setting goals and establishing priorities.
  • You will set the direction for the team by driving strategic initiatives, influencing leadership, key stakeholders, and partnering with teams throughout Amazon.
  • You will develop a healthy and collaborative culture and enable the team to deliver results.
  • You will lead effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
  • You will drive improvements to internal program and process.
  • You will write and deliver high-quality documents for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • You will drive the adoption of security processes, automation, and tooling to improve operational efficiency.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of managing and developing teams experience
  • 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
  • Knowledge of security of web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security
  • Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
  • Experience managing communication with geographically distributed teams
  • Information security professional certification (SANS GIAC, CISSP etc.)
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
  • Experience managing remote team members

Benefits

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.

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.

Training and Career Growth: Endless knowledge‑sharing, training, and other career‑advancing resources are available to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

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Job Description:

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

  • Your team has an emphasis on fast paced, highly visible engagements. You will be comfortable with a high level of ambiguity, exercising strong ownership, and be able to make high judgement decisions focusing on what is best for Amazon’s Customers. Additionally, you should thrive in navigating complex stakeholder engagements a skill integral to the teams success.
  • You will lead the strategic direction and evolution of Application Security review team/s, including setting goals and establishing priorities.
  • You will set the direction for the team by driving strategic initiatives, influencing leadership, key stakeholders, and partnering with teams throughout Amazon.
  • You will develop a healthy and collaborative culture and enable the team to deliver results.
  • You will lead effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
  • You will drive improvements to internal program and process.
  • You will write and deliver high-quality documents for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • You will drive the adoption of security processes, automation, and tooling to improve operational efficiency.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of managing and developing teams experience
  • 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
  • Knowledge of security of web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security
  • Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
  • Experience managing communication with geographically distributed teams
  • Information security professional certification (SANS GIAC, CISSP etc.)
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
  • Experience managing remote team members

Benefits

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.

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.

Training and Career Growth: Endless knowledge‑sharing, training, and other career‑advancing resources are available to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

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Posted: May 17th, 2026