Sr. Security Engineer, Field Innovation, Security Search and Observability (SSO)

Amazon Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Senior Security Engineer to join the Field Innovation team, operating within AWS Security, Search, Observability, and Governance. You will design and ship AI-powered security capabilities, including threat modeling, vulnerability management, and correlated detections across cloud, runtime, and AI/ML workloads.

This dual-facing role combines customer-facing field work with partner collaboration to shape service roadmaps and reduce false positives at scale, using modern AI tooling

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years in troubleshooting systems issues, log analysis, or automation with CLI tools.
• 5+ years identifying security issues and developing mitigation plans.
• 5+ years scripting, programming, and security code review.
• Experience with at least two languages among Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go.
• Experience in identifying vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Run early-access and gated previews of AI-powered capabilities with customers, including threat modeling and remediation guidance.
• Shape detection coverage and influence service roadmaps from field and partner insights.
• Drive detection engineering best practices, reduce false positives, and measure coverage.
• Stay current with cloud security threats, including AI/ML-related risks.
• Collaborate across science, engineering, partner, and field teams with flexible hours for global customers.

Skills

Mentor/Tech lead

Security engineering

AI/ML tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Scala

Python

C/C++

Go

Job description

Description

The Field Innovation team is a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) group inside the AWS Security, Search, Observability, and Governance service team. We work directly with customers to build next-generation security capabilities that help the world's largest enterprises get faster return on value from security, search, observability, and governance services.

We are hiring a Senior Security Engineer to work at the intersection of customer impact and AI. Our team builds and operates the detection, correlation, and vulnerability-management capabilities behind security services such as AWS Security Hub, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS GuardDuty, as well as our newest AI-powered offering, AWS Continuum, which manages the full lifecycle of code vulnerabilities at machine speed. You'll work with customers to understand how they operate, then partner with service teams to design and ship commercial-grade security products powered by modern AI, including large language models, AI-assisted development tools, security agents, and emerging frameworks. Your code ships to real customers, and your architectural decisions will shape how Fortune 500 companies operate.

The Opportunity

Your impact here will be immediate and visible. You'll ship features that directly change how customers run their businesses, and you'll see the impact of your work in weeks, not years. The team is small enough that your decisions carry real weight and large enough that you'll always have someone to learn from.

This is a dual-facing role. On the field side, you'll work directly with customers to implement the latest features of our security services, leading threat-modeling sessions, performing vulnerability assessments with security agents, and guiding remediation. On the partner side, you'll work with leading third-party security providers to identify their highest-signal findings and turn them into correlated, high-fidelity detections. Across both, you'll design and implement detection content, reduce false positives at scale, and expand coverage across cloud resources, runtime, and AI/ML workloads. Everything you learn in the field feeds back into the product.

AI is not a side experiment on this team. It's a core part of the stack. You'll build with large language models, AI-assisted development tools, security agents, agent frameworks, and retrieval-augmented generation as everyday engineering primitives.

Key job responsibilities

• Run early-access and gated previews of our newest AI-powered capabilities with customers, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessment using security agents, and remediation guidance.
• Work backwards from customers to shape detection coverage and influence service roadmaps, feeding field and partner insights back to science and engineering teams.
• Drive detection engineering best practices, including security-value evaluation, false-positive reduction, and coverage measurement.
• Stay current with the evolving cloud security and threat landscape, including emerging threats targeting agentic AI and ML applications.
• Collaborate across science, engineering, partner, and field teams, operating with flexible hours to support global customers and distributed stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• 5+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience
• Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services
• Experience in the full secure software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience working in a customer-facing role

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

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