Senior Security Engineer — Flexible Hours & Secure-by-Default

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Security is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to be the embedded security lead on Customer Service initiatives. You will own security assurance from ideation through launch, shaping threat models, guardrails, and secure-by-default patterns across the business unit.

You will mentor engineers, drive secure coding practices, and define long-term security strategy with stakeholders, influencing how teams ship secure software at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years identifying security issues and risks with mitigation plans.
• 4+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review.
• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.
• Experience identifying security issues in service-oriented architectures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior security engineer on large, complex initiatives across Customer Service.
• Design automated security guardrails, paved paths and secure-by-default patterns.
• Tackle ambiguous security problems with clear business direction.
• Drive continuous security assurance with automated preventive and detective controls.
• Review designs and code to ensure secure, extensible and efficient implementations.
• Promote secure coding standards and develop training and processes.
• Define long-term security strategy with stakeholders and researchers.
• Mentor engineers and participate in hiring.

Skills

Security risk mgmt

Scripting & code review

Risk identification

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Amazon Security is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to be the embedded security lead on Customer Service initiatives. You will own security assurance from ideation through launch, shaping threat models, guardrails, and secure-by-default patterns across the business unit.

You will mentor engineers, drive secure coding practices, and define long-term security strategy with stakeholders, influencing how teams ship secure software at scale.