Amazon
Senior Security Engineer, AI & AGI Security
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in systems troubleshooting/log analysis/command-line automation; 5+ years in security risk identification and mitigation; 4+ years in scripting, programming, and security code review.
About the job
Secures Amazon’s AI applications by shaping security strategy, guiding development teams, reviewing designs and code, and building tools to reduce risk.
What you'll do
- Create and maintain threat models; perform manual and automated security code reviews.
- Develop AI security automation and provide architecture guidance, training, and outreach to internal teams.
- Conduct security research and risk assessments, and influence security processes and product roadmaps.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 4+ years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review; knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
- Industry-based experience identifying security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques; experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
Nice to have
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques, or equivalent.
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.
Pay
178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go, JavaScript
AI focus
Secures AI applications through security strategy, threat modeling, code review, automation tools, architecture guidance, and internal training.
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