Senior Security Engineer, AI Security

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 Amazons 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 seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our AI Security organization that builds AIpowered security solutions to reimagine how Amazon discovers and protects customer data and applications.

As a Senior Security Engineer you will conduct security research and collaborate with applied scientists software engineers as well as partner teams to develop innovative AI agent technologies that solve some of our hardest security problems and build intelligent foundational services that support builder teams across Amazon throughout their software development journey enabling Amazon businesses to accelerate the pace of innovation to delight our customers.

Key job responsibilities
Conduct security research on AIpowered mechanisms for discovering and protecting customer data and applications at scale effectively and efficiently.
Ensure our agentic workflows deliver high impact security value.

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 uptodate security expertise to their problems.

About the team
Amazon Security:

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security

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 Amazons 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.

Work/Life Balance

We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.

Training and Career growth

Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing training and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent.
Extensive experience and expertise in programming in Python Ruby Go Swift Java .Net C or similar object oriented language experience.
Extensive experience and expertise in any combination of the following: threat modeling experience secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography system administration and network security experience.
Experience using Large Language Models (LLM) in security engineering.

Masters or PhD in cyber security or artificial intelligence.
Strong interest in researching and developing new technologies with high customer impact.
Strong problemsolving ability and the ability to work in ambiguous and constantly evolving environment.
Excellent communication skills with both technical and nontechnical audiences.

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. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( to know more about how we collect use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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