Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud services company that prioritizes security across its products and services. The Security Engineer will lead security escalation assessments, coordinate cross-functional security improvement initiatives, and drive long-term remediation at scale. The role also applies AI and agentic technologies to threat detection, escalation triage, automation, and incident response while reporting to senior leadership and delivering security metrics.
Responsibilities
- Act in a leading role as a Security Bar Raiser. Consistently demonstrate Insist on the Highest Standards by evaluating and assessing security incidents, weighing in on root cause and remediation, and lead the coordination of conversations to craft and implement long-term improvements, at scale
- Collaborate across business and service teams to drive, manage and track long-term security enhancement projects. Deliver results, own communication and status reporting
- Develop written executive-level reporting on project status and outcomes
- Chair a weekly security meeting with members of senior leadership, including contributing to the security discussions, driving the agenda, and capturing follow up items / actions to drive to completion
- Identifying functional and technical security requirements by collecting inputs from business, security, and technical teams. Bar raise security posture in partnership with the service teams, identifying thematic issues for improvement and work with the service teams to implement
- Leverage AI and agentic technologies to enhance security workflows, including automated threat detection, intelligent escalation triage, and autonomous incident response tooling
- Address bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
- Partner with multiple teams across multiple locations with varying sets of priorities to ensure a timely delivery of the secure solution
- Clarify and drive security objectives as well as establish and maintain clear chains of accountability
- Drive Security metrics delivery and improvements
Skills
- • 3+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- • 3+ 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 working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
- • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- • Experience with 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 applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- • Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
- • Experience using AI-powered tools and automation to enhance security engineering workflows (e.g., AI-assisted threat detection, automated triage, or intelligent alerting)
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences
- Knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources
- Flexible work hours and arrangements
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