Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a passionate, innovative, and motivated Senior Security Engineer for the AWS Security Vulnerability Management team. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is job zero. Our team is responsible for assessing and managing vulnerabilities across AWS services, with a growing focus on AI services and their software supply chains at AWS' unprecedented scale. We are data-driven, set big goals, and are always challenging ourselves to raise the security bar at AWS.

In this role, you will be part of a team of security engineers performing comprehensive risk assessments and vulnerability management across traditional and AI-powered services that have direct and measurable impact on our customers. Our programs stretch across all of AWS, giving you the opportunity to interact with product teams, ML specialists, security partners, and organization leaders. You will evaluate complex security challenges and drive remediation strategies across our technology landscape.

Key job responsibilities

Assess and model security risks across AWS services, including AI/ML systems and their dependencies.

• Perform vulnerability and impact assessments taking into account base, temporal, and environmental factors, including AI-specific risk vectors.
• Analyze large datasets to identify security trends and emerging risks for AI managed services.
• Evaluate security controls supply chain risks for AWS AI services.
• Partner with AI security teams and make high judgement determinations on vulnerabilities emerging from model security reviews.
• Create and maintain vulnerability severity frameworks that account for both traditional and AI-specific security concerns.
• Collaborate with software teams to contextualize findings and for foundational models and LLMs.
• Drive security improvements through clear technical guidance and risk assessment.
• Partner with teams to identify and implement risk reduction strategies at scale.
• Develop and maintain security metrics to track vulnerability management effectiveness.

A day in the life

You will begin by reviewing vulnerability assessments across AWS services, including AI-enabled systems. Next, you'll collaborate with product teams to evaluate security posture and define remediation priorities. You'll conduct deep dives with system owners to understand environmental context and validate risk levels. Later, you'll mentor junior engineers on security risk assessment and supply chain vulnerabilities for both traditional and AI systems. You'll analyze security metrics to measure program effectiveness and impact. Finally, you'll work with teams to enhance security standards and risk models while ensuring practical implementation approaches.

About the team

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, including our growing portfolio of AI-enabled services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to assess and manage risk in a wide variety of areas including cloud, AI/ML systems, 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

• 5+ years of experience in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
• 4+ years of experience in network, system, or software architecture; design, implementation, support, and security evaluation of tools and services
• 2+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: cryptography, web and network protocols, data structures and algorithms, software development, threat modelling, penetration testing, or vulnerability assessments

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of scripting or programming experience in Ruby, Python, Shell/BASH scripting, Java, C/C++, C*, Perl, or other languages
• Deep expertise in vulnerability management, including the evaluation of software vulnerabilities, exploitation probability prediction systems, the calculation of risk posed by vulnerabilities in complex software deployments such as container orchestration
• Experience in assessing security risks for AI/ML systems, including model supply chain security, vulnerability analysis of large language models, and implementing security controls for AI development and deployment pipelines.
• Experience generating automated metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency
• In Depth understanding of cloud computing services and deployment architecture
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.