Senior Security Engineering Leader for GenAI & HR/Legal

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Security seeks a Sr. Manager, Security Engineering to lead the HR and Legal security domain, building a team that protects sensitive data for millions of Amazonians.

You'll own strategy, roadmap, and outcomes as we move to continuous automated evaluation and tackle GenAI threats across agentic applications, with leadership across HR and Legal partners.

We value clear communication, scalable processes, and a balance between strategic vision and hands-on delivery as the organization evolves.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience.
• Experience in risk assessment and enabling organizations to make security decisions.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• 5+ years of managing system or software development teams experience.

Responsibilities

• Define your team’s security strategy, including how your team threat models GenAI and LLM-backed applications, secures agentic workflows, and drives adoption of secure-by-default infrastructure across builder teams.
• Design and evolve the team to match the work. Identify gaps in skills, roles, and coverage, restructure when priorities shift, and build a bench of future leaders who can operate independently.
• Partner with VP-level builder leadership across HR and Legal organizations to align security priorities with business priorities, using data to make the case and negotiating when goals compete.
• Own the transition from scheduled reviews to continuous automated evaluation. Set the roadmap, resource the investment, measure the outcomes, and course‑correct as the model matures.
• Build the operational mechanisms your team runs on: escalation paths, inspection cadences, delivery metrics, and feedback loops that surface problems early and scale without adding headcount.
• Communicate the security posture and strategy for your domain to senior leadership. Write clearly, present confidently, and translate technical risk into business terms.

Skills

Security engineering

Team management

Risk assessment

Technical communication

Tools

Security design review

Threat modeling

Risk analysis

Software testing

Job description

Amazon Security seeks a Sr. Manager, Security Engineering to lead the HR and Legal security domain, building a team that protects sensitive data for millions of Amazonians.

You'll own strategy, roadmap, and outcomes as we move to continuous automated evaluation and tackle GenAI threats across agentic applications, with leadership across HR and Legal partners.

We value clear communication, scalable processes, and a balance between strategic vision and hands-on delivery as the organization evolves.