Amazon
Sr. Security Engineer, Customer Service Identity and Access Management
$178K–$227K
Austin, TX +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Seattle, WA
Irvine, CA - Experience
- 5+ years for the stated security, programming, troubleshooting, and domain experience; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering-team lead. No alternative duration stated.
About the job
Leads the strategy, architecture, and hands-on delivery of identity and access security for Amazon Customer Service, including authentication, authorization, and customer-data protection.
What you'll do
- Set multi-year security strategy and technical direction for Customer Service Identity and Access Management.
- Design and deliver scalable authentication, authorization, and account-management solutions, including guardrails for AI agents and associates acting on customers’ behalf.
- Resolve complex security problems, influence partner teams and leaders, and mentor security engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in security risk identification and mitigation, and 5+ years identifying vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
- 5+ years scripting, programming, and security code review; knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
- 5+ years troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- 5+ years across at least 5 listed security domains, plus experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering-team lead.
Nice to have
- Threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques, or equivalent.
- 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
AI focus
Define authorization models that govern AI agents and associates acting on customers’ behalf; AI security is also listed as a security domain.
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