Amazon
Senior Security Engineer, Special Projects
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in security engineering, including at least 3 years focused on systems or infrastructure security.
About the job
Own the security trust model and engineering controls for a distributed infrastructure platform, protecting workloads and verifying results across compute environments.
What you'll do
- Create the platform threat model and identify attack surfaces across compute nodes, network transit, and the control plane.
- Design node attestation and encrypted workload delivery, and build result-integrity verification mechanisms.
- Conduct security reviews, prepare for penetration tests, and write compliance documentation.
What they ask for
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
- Non-internship experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks with command-line tools, and identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; threat modeling and penetration testing experience, or the stated alternative background in analytical skills, communication, Linux, and networking protocols.
- Deep expertise in hardware attestation and cryptographic protocols; understanding of zero-trust architectures and experience with secure API design, authentication, and authorization.
Nice to have
- Experience securing edge or distributed platforms where hardware is not under direct organizational control.
- Background in secure enclave programming, ML model protection, or applied cryptography/remote-attestation research or patents.
Pay
178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go, TPM, TEE, Linux
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