Security Engineering Manager: Third-Party Tools & Controls

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,100 - 236,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks an experienced Security Engineering Manager to lead the Secure Third Party Tools team and define security controls for external vendors, software providers, and services. You will guide expert reviews, drive automation, and ensure the alignment of security standards with scalable tooling.

The role focuses on people leadership, collaboration with Product, Software Engineering, and Applied Science teams, and delivering measurable security improvements across complex engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of managing and developing teams experience.
• 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
• Knowledge of security of web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Security Engineers who define and enforce Amazon's third-party security controls.
• Set the security vision and strategy for your team's domain—defining which security controls to prioritize, how to evolve them against emerging threats, and how to integrate them into automated assessment systems.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to translate security requirements into tool capabilities, providing subject‑matter expertise that shapes product roadmaps and feature priorities.
• Drive the feedback loop between manual expert reviews and automated assessment outputs, continuously improving precision and reducing the need for human intervention.
• Conduct threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and risk assessments for complex or novel third‑party integrations.
• Develop and maintain security guidance, runbooks, and documentation for internal teams and third‑party vendors.
• Author documents for leadership reviews, communicating security risks, resource needs, and strategic priorities clearly and concisely.
• Build mechanisms for operational excellence—tracking team capacity, review throughput, quality metrics, and backlog health.

Skills

Team leadership

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field

Job description

Amazon seeks an experienced Security Engineering Manager to lead the Secure Third Party Tools team and define security controls for external vendors, software providers, and services. You will guide expert reviews, drive automation, and ensure the alignment of security standards with scalable tooling.

The role focuses on people leadership, collaboration with Product, Software Engineering, and Applied Science teams, and delivering measurable security improvements across complex engagements.