This role involves leading a strategic security initiative at Amazon, focusing on building automation and AI-powered tooling to enhance software security in fulfillment, delivery, and grocery operations. The team prioritizes work-life harmony and meaningful work, embedding security early in the development lifecycle. The position requires close collaboration with development teams to ensure secure software delivery while addressing high-impact risks. Candidates will have the opportunity to mentor others and drive significant projects from concept to deployment.

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review experience in a common programming language.
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing.
• Experience owning and leading significant projects from concept to deployment.
• Experience communicating security risk to technical and non-technical stakeholders in writing.
• 3+ years of application security engineering experience, including security design reviews and threat modeling.
• Experience carrying a builder-facing security consult load, including intake and resolution tracking.
• Experience in root cause analysis and error correction.
• Experience in mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers.
• Experience with cloud security in AWS, including IAM and VPC.
• Experience building automated security controls or shifting security left in CI/CD pipelines.

• Lead a strategic security initiative end to end, including scoping, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Build security automation and AI-powered tooling that prevents vulnerabilities before they reach production.
• Review application architecture and designs, leading security design reviews.
• Consult directly with development teams, providing actionable guidance to meet security standards.
• Identify opportunities to centralize security controls for broader adoption across teams.
• Analyze high-impact risks, spot patterns, and implement long-term fixes.
• Communicate risk and recommendations clearly to engineers and business stakeholders.
• Coach and mentor teammates to improve team performance and value delivery.

• 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.