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.

We are seeking Security Engineers who want to help secure Amazon. If you’re passionate about Information Security, have exceptional technical depth in one or more security domains, and want to join a large scale, fast-paced organization with global impact on millions of customers, then we’d like to talk to you. We are passionate in our desire to secure Amazon's environments and protect our customers' trust and unflinching in our resolve to hold the security bar high.

As a Security Engineer, you will be responsible for leading security diligence for acquisitions, designing and guiding post-close acquisition security roadmaps, and enabling existing Amazon subsidiaries to seamlessly secure their environments through the delivery of innovative security solutions and acting as a Trusted Advisor across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise. In their communication, they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Inter-personally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

- As a Security Engineer, you’ll help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure.
- You’ll work with data scientists, software development engineers, and other security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions. Our services protect the infrastructure for all customers and preserves our customers’ trust in us.
- You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of Amazon built security technologies to build services that proactively protect customers, both internally and externally, from security threats.
- Communicate effectively with management and engineering, building trust across the organization, and demonstrating discretion with sensitive information.
- Identify continuous process improvements at unprecedented scale.
- Support scalable security solutions across our diverse subsidiary networks.
- Strong desire to up-skill and self-develop to learn at Amazon scale.
- Support threat modeling and turn that into actionable plans to reduce risk.
- Support pre-acquisition security due diligence interviews and create security findings and recommendations reports.
- Support creation of post-close secure integration roadmaps for new acquisitions, act as a Trusted Advisor to new and existing subsidiaries.

About the team
About Amazon Security:

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.