Senior Security Engineer - AI-Driven AppSec & Threat Modeling

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre London is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead threat modelling, code review, and security automation across diverse services. You will collaborate with software teams to identify risks and drive secure solutions in cloud, devices, and applications.

The role emphasizes leadership, clear communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and advancing security practices using AI/LLM tools within a culture of work-life harmony.

Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language
• Experience (non-internship) in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools
• Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Experience in scaling security reviews with AI/LLM

Responsibilities

• Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
• Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Javascript.
• Development of security automation tools.
• Adversarial security analysis using novel tools to augment manual effort.
• Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
• Security architecture and design guidance.
• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
• Influence your team's and partners' process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes.
• Be on the forefront of AI adoption in process and tooling

Skills

Scripting & programming

Troubleshooting & automation

Security risk identification

Vulnerability remediation

Mentorship & leadership

AI/LLM for security

Job description

Amazon Development Centre London is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead threat modelling, code review, and security automation across diverse services. You will collaborate with software teams to identify risks and drive secure solutions in cloud, devices, and applications.

The role emphasizes leadership, clear communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and advancing security practices using AI/LLM tools within a culture of work-life harmony.