Amazon.com Services LLC

Systems, Quality, Security Engineering, Systems Security Engineering, amazon security

SeniorSecurityEngineer

$178–227k Bellevue, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Security Engineer at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Security Engineering, AI Security, Automation, System Design. Design AI powered security automation. Build AI powered security automation”

What You'll Achieve.

Accelerate development velocity; Ensure products are secure; Solve real security problems; Operate reliably at scale; Enable faster security issue resolution; Continuously measure accuracy; Continuously measure reliability; Continuously measure safety

Industry & Context.

Systems, Quality, Security Engineering, Systems Security Engineering, amazon security
Problems you'll solve

Problem solving; Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

On call rotations

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years application security, 5+ years identity access controls, 5+ years incident response, 5+ years mobile security, 5+ years cloud computing security, 5+ years AI security, 5+ years threat intelligence, 5+ years penetration testing, 2+ years AI/ML security use cases, Prompt engineering experience, LLM integration experience, ML pipeline development experience, Python programming proficiency, Java programming experience, Go programming experience, Rust programming experience, TypeScript programming experience, Cloud security architecture experience, AWS IAM experience, AWS VPC experience, AWS KMS experience, AWS security monitoring experience, Design large scale distributed systems, Deliver large scale distributed systems, High availability systems experience, Operational maturity experience, Influence technical strategy, Drive cross team alignment, Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Cybersecurity, Equivalent experience

Nice to Have

Amazon Bedrock familiarity, SageMaker familiarity, Managed AI/ML services familiarity, Generative AI success, Reduce MTTD/MTTR, Open source security contributions, Published AI cybersecurity research, RAG architectures experience, Advanced degree MS/PhD, AWS Security Specialty certification, AWS Solutions Architect certification, AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification

What You'll Do.

Design AI powered security automation

Build AI powered security automation

Develop agentic AI workflows

Maintain agentic AI workflows

Build evaluation frameworks

Measure AI tool accuracy

Measure AI tool reliability

Measure AI tool safety

Improve AI tool accuracy

Improve AI tool reliability

Improve AI tool safety

Define technical roadmaps

Influence org level priorities

Drive alignment across teams

Author technical design documents

Review technical design documents

Author architecture proposals

Review architecture proposals

Establish operational excellence standards

Monitor AI security systems

Alert AI security systems

Implement human in loop safeguards

Participate in on call rotations

Ensure rapid response incidents

Ensure rapid response degradation

Provide updates to leadership

Contribute to operational planning

Support team development

Provide technical mentoring

Provide career coaching

Foster culture of learning

Perform ad-hoc security initiatives

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with other teams; Cross team alignment; Across partner teams; Across the organization

Communication Scope

Clear communication; Written narratives

Process & Methodology

Roadmap prioritization, Operational planning

Full Job Description

The Ads Security organization at Amazon is dedicated to creating innovative technical solutions that detect, assess, and mitigate security risks within Amazon’s Advertising businesses. Our vision is to accelerate the development velocity of the Advertising business by ensuring that our products are inherently secure. We are seeking a talented Senior Security Engineer to join our team, where you will have the opportunity to contribute to securing web applications and services critical to delivering exceptional customer and partner experiences at scale in Amazon Ads. The ideal candidate You are a security engineer first, with a builder's mindset and a track record of shipping AI powered solutions that solve real security problems at scale. You don't just experiment with AI. You've deployed it in production, measured its impact, and iterated based on outcomes. You have deep, hands on expertise in security engineering fundamentals: threat modeling, secure system design, vulnerability analysis, incident response, and defensive architecture. You understand attacker methodologies and think about security from first principles, not just tool outputs. You have proven experience building security solutions powered by AI that operate reliably at scale. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, defining problems before solving them, and influencing others through technical depth and clear communication. You set the bar for engineering quality on your team and raise the level of everyone around you. You are energized by the opportunity to pioneer a new discipline: applying generative AI and agentic systems to security challenges that were previously unsolvable through automation alone. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring the protection of customer data and critical infrastructure within the Ads organization. Key job responsibilities - Design and build AI powered security automation solutions to fix security issues at scale. - Develop and maintain agentic AI workflows that enab

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