Content Security Engineer: Pre-Release & AI Protections

AMAZON UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Content Security team protects pre-release content across Amazon Global Media and Entertainment. This Content Security Engineer role combines hands-on security advisory with technical execution: securing content creation workflows, researching new protection measures, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and tooling that power our security capabilities.

You will collaborate with studio and film production teams across the lifecycle, drive initiatives to address emergent threats

Qualifications

• 3+ years of scripting, programming and security code review experience.
• 3+ years of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management or related security work.
• Experience applying threat modeling techniques or risk identification.
• Knowledge of industry security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted services and AWS.
• Experience with networking protocols (HTTP(S), DNS, TCP/IP).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary content security advisor to film and series production teams, guiding secure workflow design.
• Assess content processing architectures to securely deploy and maintain content networks and equipment.
• Manage security assessments of third-party services and vendor security coordination.
• Research and pilot next-generation content security measures (watermarking, fingerprinting, content tracking).
• Contribute to securing pre-release content against generative AI threats and translating risks into controls.
• Maintain and enhance AWS infrastructure supporting Content Security operations and build security tooling.
• Write lightweight automation (Python) to support tooling, audits, and reporting.
• Develop and iterate security standard operating procedures for studios and production teams.
• Provide regular updates on program status, risk posture, and incidents.

Skills

Scripting

Threat modeling

Security code review

Identity management

Authentication

Cloud security

SDLC security

Networking fundamentals

Tools

AWS

Python

Aspera

Security tooling

Job description

Amazon Content Security team protects pre-release content across Amazon Global Media and Entertainment. This Content Security Engineer role combines hands-on security advisory with technical execution: securing content creation workflows, researching new protection measures, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and tooling that power our security capabilities.

You will collaborate with studio and film production teams across the lifecycle, drive initiatives to address emergent threats