Cloud Security Engineer: AI-Driven Guardrails & Scale

Socket.dev; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 138,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Security is seeking a Security Engineer to help secure its foundational Identity and Crypto services powering AWS. You will design security controls, guide architectural decisions, and collaborate with fast-paced teams to embed security from inception.

You will work on scalable guardrails, automated threat detection, and AI-native security practices, contributing code and supporting on-call rotations to protect critical cloud platforms used by millions of customers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review.
• 3+ years in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management, cryptography or related security areas.
• Knowledge of vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Experience using AI/ML tools to automate threat detection or security analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated security guardrails and paved paths that enable secure-by-default practices
• Engage early with development teams at the ideation and design stage to embed security into applications from the start, providing guidance on secure architecture and coding practices
• Build automated, continuous security assessment capabilities that replace manual security reviews and scale across our business unit
• Contribute code for security fixes and paved path solutions directly alongside developers, making the secure path the easy path
• Partner with developers to build scalable, self-service security tools that enable teams to identify and remediate security risks without bottlenecking on security teams
• Design and implement preventive and detective security controls that provide continuous assurance rather than point-in-time assessments
• Collaborate with security stakeholders to define and drive the long-term security strategy and participate in periodic on-call rotations to support security incidents
• Leverage AI tools and techniques to accelerate security assessments, automate threat detection, and drive innovation in how we secure systems at scale

Skills

Scripting

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Identity management

Cryptography

Security reviews

AI/ML in security

Job description

Amazon Security is seeking a Security Engineer to help secure its foundational Identity and Crypto services powering AWS. You will design security controls, guide architectural decisions, and collaborate with fast-paced teams to embed security from inception.

You will work on scalable guardrails, automated threat detection, and AI-native security practices, contributing code and supporting on-call rotations to protect critical cloud platforms used by millions of customers.