Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
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.
In Amazon Stores, we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From Amazon.com to world-class machine learning pipelines, from borderless digital healthcare to no-checkout retail, we push the boundaries of technology in every direction using the globe's largest AWS deployment.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. Your daily work may include inspecting application code for security issues, building frameworks to help developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design of new services alongside software developers.
The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. You will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise and will articulate risks effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. You will harmonize differing opinions and prioritize risks to guide partners toward secure solutions.
Our organization values work-life harmony and invests in reducing on-call time while ensuring the team focuses on high-value tasks. Join the Stores AppSec organization to work hard, have fun, and make history!

Key Responsibilities
- Create, update, and maintain threat models for a wide variety of software projects
- Perform manual and automated secure code reviews primarily in Java, Python, and JavaScript
- Develop security automation tools
- Conduct adversarial security analysis using novel tools to augment manual efforts
- Provide security training and outreach for internal development teams
- Offer security architecture and design guidance
- Independently solve security problems requiring novel methods or approaches
- Influence team and partner processes, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes
- Be at the forefront of AI adoption in process and tooling

About the Team
Amazon Security values diverse experiences and encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply. We foster an inclusive team culture that embraces learning, curiosity, and diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
We provide continuous training and career growth opportunities to help you develop into a well-rounded professional.
We prioritize work-life harmony and offer flexibility to support success both at work and at home.

Experience
- Professional experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in common programming languages
- Experience troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools
- Experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans
- Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team
- Experience scaling security reviews with AI/LLM technologies

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

About You
You are a technically skilled security generalist with deep expertise in one or more areas. You communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. You lead by influence, harmonize differing opinions, and prioritize risks to guide teams toward secure solutions. You are passionate about security and eager to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.