Senior Security Engineer, Amazon Security Automation

AMAZON UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a security-focused engineer to help scale and protect customer data and applications. You will work across cloud, devices, retail, and more, applying security expertise at scale.

You will conduct research, develop automated systems, and mentor teams while advancing threat mitigation and security measures across Amazon’s services. This role offers exposure to a wide range of security domains and challenges.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Conduct security research on AI-powered mechanisms for discovering and protecting customer data and applications at scale effectively and efficiently.
• Ensure our agentic workflows deliver high impact security value.
• Develop automated systems integrated into Amazon’s security infrastructure.
• Research and prototype new security solutions, evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.

Skills

Scripting

Programming

Security code reviews

Troubleshooting

Log analysis

Automation

Mentorship

Threat modeling

Service-oriented architectures

Job description

Description

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 Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Key job responsibilities

• Conduct security research on AI-powered mechanisms for discovering and protecting customer data and applications at scale effectively and efficiently.
• Ensure our agentic workflows deliver high impact security value.
• Develop automated systems integrated into Amazon’s security infrastructure.
• Research and prototype new security solutions, evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.

A day in the life

Our days are varied, and our remit is broad. You will scale security agents across Amazon, and you will ensure those agents apply up-to-date security expertise to their problems.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
• Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.