Security Engineer: Cloud Security & AI Automation

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Security seeks a Security Engineer to join the team securing foundational compute and networking systems powering AWS, including EC2, Nitro, EBS, and VPC. You will work with service teams across critical systems to identify risks and design controls that scale.

You will collaborate with fast-paced engineering teams to pioneer secure AI-native development, shaping security as the industry evolves. The role offers growth, breadth across cloud, devices, and services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a non-internship role.
• 3+ years in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, or network security.
• Knowledge of common security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Knowledge of HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP networking concepts.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline.
• Experience using AI/ML tools to automate threat detection and triage workflows.

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

Authentication

AI/ML for security

Security reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

Tools

AI/ML tooling

Job description

Amazon Security seeks a Security Engineer to join the team securing foundational compute and networking systems powering AWS, including EC2, Nitro, EBS, and VPC. You will work with service teams across critical systems to identify risks and design controls that scale.

You will collaborate with fast-paced engineering teams to pioneer secure AI-native development, shaping security as the industry evolves. The role offers growth, breadth across cloud, devices, and services.