Senior Manager, AI Security Engineering

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Mountain View (CA)

On-site

USD 240,000 - 324,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Manager of Security Engineering for its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) group.

You will build and lead a distributed team of security engineers, define how security engineers embed with FDE delivery pods, and ensure every customer engagement meets AWS and customer security standards without slowing delivery velocity. You will own security outcomes across all active FDE programs, set operating cadence and staffing, and drive escalations that balance

Qualifications

10+ years hands-on security engineering experience
10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions
10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring) experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
2+ years hands-on building AI/agentic systems

Responsibilities

Build, develop, and lead a team of security engineers embedded across FDE customer engagements; own performance management, career development, and retention for a high-performing, geographically distributed security team
Define and operate the FDE security delivery model: how security engineers staff to pods, scope engagements, conduct reviews, and hand off to customers; create the mechanisms that ensure consistent security outcomes at scale
Own security delivery across multiple concurrent customer programs; prioritize security resources against the FDE engagement portfolio, resolve cross-engagement conflicts, and drive closure on security blockers impeding production deployments
Partner with FDE delivery leadership, AWS Security, and service teams to align security strategy with FDE's business objectives; represent security in FDE leadership forums and influence technical direction across organizational boundaries
Make high-judgment security risk decisions for FDE's most complex customer environments; serve as the escalation point for security architectural trade-offs that require balancing customer requirements, delivery timelines, and AWS standards
Engage directly with customer security leadership (CISOs, security VPs) to establish trust, align on security expectations, and resolve escalations that threaten customer relationships or production timelines
Drive the FDE security roadmap: identify capability gaps, prioritize investments in tooling, automation, and reusable security patterns, and ensure the team builds assets that scale the practice beyond individual engagements
Requires up to 25% travel