Application Security Engineer — AI-Driven Cloud Security

AMAZON UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an experienced Application Security Engineer to join the Application Security team in the UK. You will prioritize and communicate security priorities, maintain a high level of ownership, and focus on cloud security, AI-enabled tooling, and secure software development across Amazon’s products and services.

Responsibilities include performing security reviews, threat modeling, secure architecture design, and delivering guidance and metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP).
• Experience programming in Python, Java, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar OO language.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
• Experience in any combination of the following: app security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, secure infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls, threat modeling, cryptography, threat intelligence, or secure software development.
• AI/LLM-based automation of security workflows.

Responsibilities

• Application security reviews
• Secure architecture design
• Threat modeling
• Projects and research work as needed
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams
• Automating and enhancing security review processes using AI agents, LLMs, and generative AI tooling
• Security guidance documentation
• Security metrics delivery and improvements
• Assistance with recruiting activities

Skills

Security reviews

Threat modeling

Secure architecture

AI/LLM automation

Cloud security

Python

Education

Bachelor's in computer science

Tools

AWS services

Job description

Amazon is seeking an experienced Application Security Engineer to join the Application Security team in the UK. You will prioritize and communicate security priorities, maintain a high level of ownership, and focus on cloud security, AI-enabled tooling, and secure software development across Amazon’s products and services.

Responsibilities include performing security reviews, threat modeling, secure architecture design, and delivering guidance and metrics.