Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a passionate, innovative, and motivated Senior Security Engineer for the AWS Security Vulnerability Management team. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is job zero. Our team is responsible for assessing and managing vulnerabilities across AWS services, with a growing focus on AI services and their software supply chains at AWS' unprecedented scale. We are data-driven, set big goals, and are always challenging ourselves to raise the security bar at AWS.
In this role, you will be part of a team of security engineers performing comprehensive risk assessments and vulnerability management across traditional and AI-powered services that have direct and measurable impact on our customers. Our programs stretch across all of AWS, giving you the opportunity to interact with product teams, ML specialists, security partners, and organization leaders. You will evaluate complex security challenges and drive remediation strategies across our technology landscape.
Key job responsibilities
Assess and model security risks across AWS services, including AI/ML systems and their dependencies.
- Perform vulnerability and impact assessments taking into account base, temporal, and environmental factors, including AI-specific risk vectors.
- Analyze large datasets to identify security trends and emerging risks for AI managed services.
- Evaluate security controls supply chain risks for AWS AI services.
- Partner with AI security teams and make high judgement determinations on vulnerabilities emerging from model security reviews.
- Create and maintain vulnerability severity frameworks that account for both traditional and AI-specific security concerns.
- Collaborate with software teams to contextualize findings and for foundational models and LLMs.
- Drive security improvements through clear technical guidance and risk assessment.
- Partner with teams to identify and implement risk reduction strategies at scale.
- Develop and maintain security metrics to track vulnerability management effectiveness.
A day in the life
You will begin by reviewing vulnerability assessments across AWS services, including AI-enabled systems. Next, you'll collaborate with product teams to evaluate security posture and define remediation priorities. You'll conduct deep dives with system owners to understand environmental context and validate risk levels. Later, you'll mentor junior engineers on security risk assessment and supply chain vulnerabilities for both traditional and AI systems. You'll analyze security metrics to measure program effectiveness and impact. Finally, you'll work with teams to enhance security standards and risk models while ensuring practical implementation approaches.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services, including our growing portfolio of AI-enabled services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to assess and manage risk in a wide variety of areas including cloud, AI/ML systems, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
