Sr. Security Engineer, Alexa Security
Sr. Security Engineer, Alexa Security
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14-07-2025
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Job Description
AI can Do Anything Now and with great power comes great responsibility. Alexa Security team provides security engineering support for next-gen product builders and uses both AI and traditional methods to accomplish that mission.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Security Engineer you will influence across organizations and drive secure solutions within Alexa and other AI products. You will work with developers scientists and product leaders to deliver magical experiences to customers while maintaining customer trust.
You identify key areas of impact and drive security improvements across a large organization. You evaluate and prioritize risk effectively and communicate your work to product leaders at all levels.
Invent and improve security controls for internal and external products; including Alexa. You leverage traditional security approaches and utilize newer AI approaches when appropriate.
You are self driven and identify both problems and solutions independently.
You mentor junior engineers to deliver security outcomes. You devise training runbooks policy and other artifacts. You review security artifacts and help guide improvements.
You are skilled at identification of vulnerabilities through code review or pentesting. You may create proof-of-concepts for vulnerabilities or new defenses.
A day in the life
Were largely a traditional security team with some additional AI specific activities.
The product teams are our primary stakeholders. You often will consult on projects. You identify potential risks and mitigations. If an appropriate solution doesnt exist you propose a new one. You drive long-term security outcomes. You learn details of AI systems and design solutions that mitigate pitfalls.
You advocate for the end-customer so we can launch quality products built with security from the ground up.
You incorporate AI tools into your workflows to increase efficiency without sacrificing quality.
About the team
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.
In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.
Youll find endless knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years of experience in security engineering in the context of large organizations
- In-depth understanding of security threats hands on experience detecting and defending cyber threats
- Ability to develop code with at least one modern language such as Java Go TypeScript Python Rust and security code review.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g. tech lead developed security architecture for a product or system led technical component of security project etc.)
- Experience leading and coaching junior security engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness
- Experience in novel security research such as CVEs Bug Bounty or academic papers
- Experience with common cloud services (IAM Lambda EC2 S3) for security automation
- Experience with data science big data analytics cloud telemetry
- Experience with GenAI models and tool-using applications including MCP or other frameworks
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Security Engineer you will influence across organizations and drive secure solutions within Alexa and other AI products. You will work with developers scientists and product leaders to deliver magical experiences to customers while maintaining customer trust.
You identify key areas of impact and drive security improvements across a large organization. You evaluate and prioritize risk effectively and communicate your work to product leaders at all levels.
Invent and improve security controls for internal and external products; including Alexa. You leverage traditional security approaches and utilize newer AI approaches when appropriate.
You are self driven and identify both problems and solutions independently.
You mentor junior engineers to deliver security outcomes. You devise training runbooks policy and other artifacts. You review security artifacts and help guide improvements.
You are skilled at identification of vulnerabilities through code review or pentesting. You may create proof-of-concepts for vulnerabilities or new defenses.
A day in the life
Were largely a traditional security team with some additional AI specific activities.
The product teams are our primary stakeholders. You often will consult on projects. You identify potential risks and mitigations. If an appropriate solution doesnt exist you propose a new one. You drive long-term security outcomes. You learn details of AI systems and design solutions that mitigate pitfalls.
You advocate for the end-customer so we can launch quality products built with security from the ground up.
You incorporate AI tools into your workflows to increase efficiency without sacrificing quality.
About the team
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.
In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.
Youll find endless knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years of experience in security engineering in the context of large organizations
- In-depth understanding of security threats hands on experience detecting and defending cyber threats
- Ability to develop code with at least one modern language such as Java Go TypeScript Python Rust and security code review.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g. tech lead developed security architecture for a product or system led technical component of security project etc.)
- Experience leading and coaching junior security engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness
- Experience in novel security research such as CVEs Bug Bounty or academic papers
- Experience with common cloud services (IAM Lambda EC2 S3) for security automation
- Experience with data science big data analytics cloud telemetry
- Experience with GenAI models and tool-using applications including MCP or other frameworks
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time