Sr Manager, Security Engineer, FDE, Forward Deployed Engineering

Socket.dev; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Forward Deployed Engineering seeks a Sr. Manager of Security Engineering to build and lead a security team protecting production AI systems deployed worldwide.

You will own the security delivery model for FDE, embed security engineers with delivery pods, and ensure every engagement meets security standards without slowing velocity. You will lead senior security engineers, make critical security decisions, and drive the security roadmap across multiple concurrent programs.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a geographically distributed security engineering team embedded across FDE engagements.
• Define and operate the security delivery model for FDE across multiple programs.
• Own security delivery across concurrent customer programs and resolve blockers.
• Partner with delivery leadership, AWS Security, and service teams to align strategy.
• Make high-judgment security risk decisions balancing customer needs and AWS standards.
• Engage with customer CISOs/SVPs to build trust and manage escalations.
• Drive the FDE security roadmap and scalable security assets.
• Travel up to 25%.

Skills

Security engineering

Risk assessment

Team management

Security architecture

Customer-facing leadership

Communication to non-technical

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

2+ years hands on building AI/agentic systems

Job description

AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) embeds AI engineers directly inside strategic enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems. Security is the critical enabler. We are looking for a Sr. Manager, Security Engineering to build and lead the FDE security team that protects production AI systems deployed in customer environments worldwide.

You will own the security delivery model for FDE: standing up the team, defining how security engineers embed with FDE delivery pods, and ensuring every customer engagement meets AWS and customer security standards without slowing delivery velocity. You are responsible for security outcomes across all active FDE programs simultaneously. You set the operating cadence, staffing model, and escalation paths that keep security moving at the speed of FDE: weeks, not quarters.

You lead a team of senior and principal security engineers while staying close enough to the technical work to make critical security decisions, unblock customer escalations, and earn the trust of customer CISOs. You build the team, develop the people, and own the results.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.

Key job 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

A day in the life

You start the morning in a standup with your security engineers embedded across three active FDE engagements, triaging a guardrail bypass finding from one pod and reprioritizing security review coverage for a new financial services customer onboarding this week. Mid-morning you're in a 1:1 with a senior security engineer working through their promotion narrative. Before lunch you join a call with a customer CISO who needs assurance on data isolation controls before greenlighting production. In the afternoon you're reviewing the team's quarterly security metrics with FDE delivery leadership, then closing out the day interviewing a principal security engineer candidate. You balance people, delivery, and strategy every day.

About the team

AWS Forward Deployed Engineering embeds AI engineers directly inside strategic enterprise customers to build production AI systems. AWS invested $1B in this initiative. We move at the speed of the customer: demonstrating ROI in weeks, not quarters. We are customer-obsessed. We lead customers toward outcomes, build together, and leave behind scalable patterns. Security is our enabling function: without it, nothing goes to production. Our culture is people-first, anti-burnout, bold, and engineering-excellence-driven.

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10047 Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience
• 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services
• Experience in customer-facing leadership roles
• 10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience experience
• US government security clearance of top secret or above

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