Security Engineer, AmSec

About the role

Amazon Security is seeking a Security Engineer who thrives in ambiguity and is motivated to build scalable security solutions. The Secure Third Party Tools (S3T) team has bold ambitions to redefine how Amazon protects customer trust across all third-party interactions — shifting from reactive assessments to proactive, automated protection at global scale.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical deep-dive security reviews of third-party services across diverse and ambiguous use cases, including AI/ML integrations, cloud architectures, and services handling sensitive customer data
• Identify and trace data flows through complex systems, evaluating where security controls are lacking or require supplementation
• Evaluate vendor penetration test reports, assessing finding applicability and severity within the context of each engagement
• Threat model third-party use cases to rapidly surface sharp edges and drive risk-proportionate decisions
• Influence and contribute to AI-powered security tooling that automates and scales review decisions across the organization
• Clearly communicate identified risks and recommendations to service teams and leadership, driving resolution through escalation when needed
• Author and improve security baselines, decision rubrics, and implementation patterns for novel third-party use cases

Qualifications

Basic qualifications include 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience, and knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.

• Preferred qualifications include knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing
• Experience in risk assessment and enabling organizations to make security decisions
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
• Experience in identifying security risks in AI applications

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $159,300.00 - $202,400.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.