Senior Security Engineer, Amazon

• This role requires deep technical expertise in application security, threat modeling, and secure system design, combined with the ability to influence engineering teams and deliver high-impact security outcomes with minimal guidance
• The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly
• 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
• Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Desirable

• The Senior Security Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for independently driving security initiatives across multiple services and teams
• Security Reviews & Assessments: Lead end-to-end security reviews for complex, high-priority services including design reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing scoping and readout
• Technical Leadership: Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned affinity teams, providing architectural guidance and security consultation to service teams throughout the development lifecycle. Provide guidance and advise to senior leaders, including providing ideas for team goals, contributing to Operational Planning and newsletters
• Threat Modeling: Independently perform and guide threat modeling exercises for complex distributed systems, identifying risks and recommending mitigations
• Manual Code Review: Conduct targeted manual code reviews of security-critical components, identifying vulnerabilities and insecure patterns that automated tools miss
• Penetration Testing: Scope, coordinate, and oversee penetration testing engagements; analyze results and drive remediation with service teams
• Findings Management: Identify, document, and track security findings to resolution; escalate critical issues to leadership when appropriate
• Mentorship & Influence: Mentor junior engineers, contribute to team processes and tooling improvements, and raise the security bar across the organization. Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly across organization levels including ttechnical and non technical audience
• Design & Build Security Tooling: Design and build security automation, tooling, and processes that improve operational efficiency and scale the team's impact
• AI-Powered Security Automation: Leverage generative AI and machine learning to build intelligent security automations that streamline review workflows, enhance vulnerability detection, and reduce manual toil. Ability to write code for security automation
• Builder Engagement: Partner with service teams to improve security posture proactively, including developing self-service guidance, documentation, and readiness frameworks
• Metrics & Reporting: Define and track security metrics that measure risk reduction, operational efficiency, and builder experience improvements
• As a Senior Security Engineer, you will collaborate with application development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing novel services using GenAI
• In a given day, you might be inspecting an application’s code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service
• Technically, this person will be a security specialist with one or more areas of deep expertise within application security
• They will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions