Sr. Manager, Security Engineering, Corporate Services Security (CPSS)

Amazon.com Services LLC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a senior security leader to head the SEALS team responsible for protecting HR and Legal applications used by millions of Amazonians.

You will own the security strategy, build and manage the team, and drive outcomes as we shift to continuous automated security evaluation against GenAI and agentic application threats.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of 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.

Responsibilities

• Define your team's security strategy, including threat modeling GenAI and LLM-backed applications, and driving secure-by-default infrastructure across builder teams.
• Design and evolve the team structure, identify skill gaps, and build future leaders who can operate independently.
• Partner with VP-level leadership across HR and Legal to align security priorities with business goals using data-driven arguments.
• Own the transition to continuous automated evaluation; set roadmaps, resources, and measure outcomes as the model matures.
• Build operational mechanisms: escalation paths, inspection cadences, delivery metrics, and feedback loops.
• Communicate security posture and strategy to senior leadership; translate technical risk into business terms.

Skills

Security engineering

Risk assessment

Non-technical communication

Team leadership

Job description

Lead the security team that protects the HR and Legal applications millions of Amazonians trust with their most sensitive data. You will own the strategy, the team, and the outcomes as we shift to continuous automated security evaluation and tackles a new generation of GenAI and agentic application threats.

Key job 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.

A day in the life

On a given day you might review a proposal for a new detection strategy covering LLM features across HR applications, coach a manager through a staffing decision, negotiate security priorities with a VP-level builder partner, or work through a team structure change to cover an emerging GenAI threat domain. You spend your time on the problems and people that set the direction for the next year and beyond, and you build the systems that keep the current quarter running without you in every decision.

About the team

SEALS is a team of security engineers and managers embedded with the development teams that build Amazon's HR and Legal applications. Your engineers partner directly with builders, reviewing designs and writing detections so security feedback arrives while the code is still fresh. You will collaborate with peer security teams covering finance and communications technology when risks cross domain boundaries. The portfolio is adopting GenAI and agentic capabilities fast, so the security problems are changing in real time. We value clear thinking over heroics, sustainable pace over crunch, and invest equally in technical and management career paths.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of information security risk‑based prioritization
• Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
• Experience appl