Security Leader, AI-First Products

About

What happens when you combine startup speed with Amazon-scale impact? You get this team. Amazon Enterprise Security Products is a newly launched group building intelligent, cloud-agnostic security tools using AI-first development practices. Here, you build AI and you build with AI — at the same time. This is not a traditional Security role. It's a chance to shape the future of security tooling with a small, fast team that ships like a startup and deploys like Amazon.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Drive security architecture for AI powered products: Lead security decisions across product development workstreams, ensuring AI powered security tooling is secure by design from the ground up.
• Shape threat models, security patterns, and guardrails that scale across multi cloud environments.
• Embed security into the builder experience: Partner with engineering leaders across Amazon Security and AESP to reduce friction for builders developing secure services.
• Champion security practices that accelerate rather than slow delivery in a fast moving, startup paced environment.
• Influence the design of AI integrated security products: Bring deep security expertise to the intersection of AI and product development.
• Guide the team in building agentic systems, RAG architectures, and intelligent automation pipelines that solve industry wide security problems.
• Evaluate and advance AI assisted security practices: Assess how emerging AI capabilities including agentic coding and AI assisted workflows can strengthen security posture, accelerate threat detection, and improve the team's development practices.

A Day in the Life

You are the security leader on a fast growing, AI first team where security is not an afterthought but a product differentiator. Your morning might start with a threat modeling session for a new agentic security product, followed by a design review where you're guiding engineers on secure architecture patterns across multi-cloud architectures. After lunch, you're partnering with product leadership to align security strategy with an upcoming launch, then coaching a security engineer through a complex problem. You move between strategy and hands on technical leadership daily, shaping both the products and the team from the ground floor.

About the Team

Amazon Enterprise Security Products is built by builders who tackle challenges others might consider too ambitious. We're a small team where there are no layers between you and the decision, no waiting quarters to see your work reach customers. Every team member brings an owner's mentality. If there's a problem worth solving, we solve it. No mission is beyond reach, no detail beneath our attention. We move fast, we ship fast, and we learn from what we ship. This is where builders who want to make the impossible routine come to do their best work.

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. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• Experience (non-internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Experience with AI/ML technologies
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Experience evaluating or implementing security practices for agentic AI systems, RAG architectures, or LLM integrated products

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
• Track record of building and scaling security engineering teams in high growth or startup environments
• Experience with threat modeling for AI powered applications and data pipelines

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.