Senior Security Engineer, Amazon

• 5+ 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
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• Experience (non-internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language
• 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
• Experience with AI/ML technologies
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Experience evaluating or implementing security practices for agentic AI systems, RAG architectures, or LLM integrated products

Desirable

• Amazon Enterprise Security Products is a newly launched group building intelligent, cloud-agnostic security tools using AI-first development practices. Here, you build AI and you build with AI — at the same time
• This is not a traditional Security role. It's a chance to shape the future of security tooling with a small, fast team that ships like a startup and deploys like Amazon
• Drive security architecture for AI powered products: Lead security decisions across product development workstreams, ensuring AI powered security tooling is secure by design from the ground up. Shape threat models, security patterns, and guardrails that scale across multi cloud environments
• Embed security into the builder experience: Partner with engineering leaders across Amazon Security and AESP to reduce friction for builders developing secure services. Champion security practices that accelerate rather than slow delivery in a fast moving, startup paced environment
• Influence the design of AI integrated security products: Bring deep security expertise to the intersection of AI and product development. Guide the team in building agentic systems, RAG architectures, and intelligent automation pipelines that solve industry wide security problems
• Evaluate and advance AI assisted security practices: Assess how emerging AI capabilities including agentic coding and AI assisted workflows can strengthen security posture, accelerate threat detection, and improve the team's development practices
• You are the security leader on a fast growing, AI first team where security is not an afterthought but a product differentiator
• Your morning might start with a threat modeling session for a new agentic security product, followed by a design review where you're guiding engineers on secure architecture patterns across multi-cloud architectures
• After lunch, you're partnering with product leadership to align security strategy with an upcoming launch, then coaching a security engineer through a complex problem
• You move between strategy and hands on technical leadership daily, shaping both the products and the team from the ground floor
• Amazon Enterprise Security Products is built by builders who tackle challenges others might consider too ambitious
• We're a small team where there are no layers between you and the decision, no waiting quarters to see your work reach customers
• Every team member brings an owner's mentality
• If there's a problem worth solving, we solve it
• No mission is beyond reach, no detail beneath our attention
• We move fast, we ship fast, and we learn from what we ship
• This is where builders who want to make the impossible routine come to do their best work