Security Engineer II, AI-Powered Ad Security

Amazon; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer to advance AI-powered security for Ads, building scalable security automation and agentic workflows. You will collaborate across teams to fine-tune models for security use cases and drive architecture discussions.

The role requires hands-on security engineering with a strong AI focus, threat modeling and incident response, and a passion for secure system design at scale in a fast-paced cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in application security frameworks, incident response, cloud security or related areas.
• Experience with AI/ML in security contexts, including prompt engineering or ML pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud security architecture (AWS) including IAM, VPC, KMS, monitoring.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own design, build, and expand AI-powered security automation at scale.
• Develop agentic AI workflows for faster security issue resolution.
• Create evaluation frameworks to improve AI tool accuracy and safety.
• Collaborate with teams to tune models for anomaly detection and log analysis.
• Draft threat models and architecture proposals for security automation services.
• Mentor engineers on secure AI/ML practices and automation patterns.
• Maintain operational excellence with monitoring, alerting, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide leadership updates.

Skills

Security engineering

AI security

Threat modeling

Incident response

Defensive architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Cybersecurity

Tools

Java

Python

Node.js

C/C#

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer to advance AI-powered security for Ads, building scalable security automation and agentic workflows. You will collaborate across teams to fine-tune models for security use cases and drive architecture discussions.

The role requires hands-on security engineering with a strong AI focus, threat modeling and incident response, and a passion for secure system design at scale in a fast-paced cloud environment.