Senior Security Engineer - CSIAM Authentication & Access

VulnU; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Retirement match

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Amazon Security in Seattle is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead CSIAM initiatives, owning authentication, authorization, and account management across Customer Service interactions. This role drives multi-year security strategy, partners with cross-functional teams, and guides the architecture for secure customer and workforce access.

You will mentor engineers, influence leadership priorities, and evaluate new security technologies to reduce risk while maintaining trust in one of the

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• 5+ years identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
• 5+ years scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• 5+ years of industry-based experience in security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 5+ years of non-internship work across at least 5 of the following security domains: app security, security infrastructure, incident response, cloud security, identity and access controls, etc.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year security strategy for CSIAM, setting the technical direction for authentication and authorization for hundreds of thousands of users and millions of customers.
• Lead the design and delivery of authentication, authorization, and account management solutions at scale for the Customer Service organization.
• Define and refine authorization models governing customer and agent interactions while protecting trust.
• Serve as the senior technical leader and escalation point for the team's most complex security problems.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging security technologies to reduce risk at scale.

Skills

Security engineering

Mentor / tech lead

Threat modeling

Security in microservices

Programming in Java/Python/C++/Go/Sca"

Job description

Amazon Security in Seattle is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead CSIAM initiatives, owning authentication, authorization, and account management across Customer Service interactions. This role drives multi-year security strategy, partners with cross-functional teams, and guides the architecture for secure customer and workforce access.

You will mentor engineers, influence leadership priorities, and evaluate new security technologies to reduce risk while maintaining trust in one of the