Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering exceptional customer experiences. The NextGen Security Automation team is seeking a skilled and driven Senior Security Engineer to create autonomous security solutions that protect Amazon's customers. You will leverage AI/ML technologies to automate detection, analysis, and remediation across proactive and offensive security at scale. Working closely with software development teams, your efforts will directly enhance Amazon's security posture by improving detection capabilities, strengthening guardrails, and advancing automated security tools.

Key responsibilities include conducting security research on AI-powered mechanisms for discovering and protecting customer data and applications at scale, ensuring agentic workflows deliver high-impact security value, developing automated systems integrated into Amazon's security infrastructure, and researching and prototyping new security solutions while evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.

A typical day involves scaling security agents across Amazon and ensuring these agents apply up-to-date security expertise to their challenges. Amazon Security values diverse experiences and encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Amazon fosters a culture of work-life harmony, inclusivity, and continuous learning. You will have access to extensive training and career growth opportunities to help you develop into a well-rounded security professional.

Experience
- Professional experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing using common programming languages
- Experience troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools
- Proven ability to identify security issues and risks and develop mitigation plans
- Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or leading an engineering team

About You
Passionate about security with a drive to innovate and automate security solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with cutting-edge AI/ML technologies to enhance security at scale. You value diversity, continuous learning, and work-life balance.

Qualifications
- Preferred experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques
- Preferred experience with security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services