The Security for Employee and Legal Systems (SEALS) team at Amazon focuses on protecting enterprise HR and Legal applications used by millions of employees. As a Security Engineer, you will be responsible for threat modeling GenAI and LLM-backed applications, ensuring the security of agentic workflows and transitive authentication. You will work closely with builder teams to deliver security outcomes and mentor peers while driving risk reduction throughout the software development lifecycle. This role requires a strong background in application security and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• 3+ years of programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, or similar object-oriented languages.
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review experience in a common programming language.
• 2+ years of experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command line tools.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM field, or equivalent IT Security experience.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
• Experience with AWS products and services.

• Own the security outcomes for assigned SEALS builder teams and the HR and Legal applications they run.
• Threat model GenAI and LLM-backed applications, covering various security risks.
• Secure agentic workflows, including transitive authentication and scoped authorization.
• Author and refine automated detection rules to catch risks at code commit.
• Use GenAI to scale delivery across your domain, including AI-assisted code review.
• Drive paved-path adoption to prevent preventable security issues.
• Hunt for risks missed by tooling through adversarial analysis and manual secure code review.
• Provide security architecture guidance and lead security outcomes of design reviews.
• Prioritize remediation by business impact and escalate risks to leadership as needed.
• Communicate security outcomes clearly to security and service team leadership.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.