The Senior Security Engineer role is part of the Field Innovation team within AWS Security, focusing on building next-generation security capabilities. This position involves working directly with customers to enhance security services through AI-powered solutions. The engineer will collaborate with service teams to design and implement commercial-grade security products, impacting how Fortune 500 companies operate. The role emphasizes immediate and visible contributions to customer business operations.

• 5+ years of non-internship experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• 5+ years of experience in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
• 5+ years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
• Knowledge of at least two programming languages such as Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• Experience in identifying industry-based security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing.
• Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in the full secure software development life cycle.

• Run early-access and gated previews of AI-powered capabilities with customers.
• Work backwards from customers to shape detection coverage and influence service roadmaps.
• Drive detection engineering best practices, including security-value evaluation and false-positive reduction.
• Stay current with the evolving cloud security and threat landscape.
• Collaborate across science, engineering, partner, and field teams.

• 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.