Senior Security Engineer

The SRC Risk Engineering team takes a scientific, data-driven approach to enhance security across Amazon's business lines. We develop state-of-the-art tools and platforms leveraging our centralized data lake to identify emerging security risks and support their mitigation. By collaborating closely with security teams, we proactively seek out opportunities to design creative solutions, leveraging advanced analytics and learning models to provide continuous and actionable risk insights.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you'll drive the development of innovative risk identification methods and play a crucial role in shaping our security tooling ecosystem. This role offers the unique opportunity to work at the intersection of security engineering, data science, and risk management while protecting millions of customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and support the development of data-driven risk identification methodologies that scale across Amazon.
- Ideate new methods of risk identification and validate the output of new security tooling leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning
- Drive innovation in our security risk detection
- Ensure security tooling output meets or exceeds established targets and metrics
- Partner with SRC and BST teams to identify and mitigate security risks
- Champion data-driven security practices and provide technical leadership across teams
- Mentor team members and contribute to the security engineering community

About the team
The SRC Risk Engineering team takes a scientific, data-driven approach to enhance security across Amazon's business lines. We develop state-of-the-art tools and platforms leveraging our centralized data lake to identify emerging security risks and supporting their mitigation. By collaborating closely with security teams, we proactively seek out opportunities to design creative solutions, leveraging advanced analytics and learning models to provide continuous and actionable risk insights.

The SRC Risk Engineering team aims to provide Amazonians with actionable, data-driven insights to enhance security and drive innovation. We strive to develop best-in-class security tools and mechanisms to become a trusted source of information on security risks, thus enabling secure business growth.

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, with 3+ years focusing on security tooling and risk management
- Experience with data analytics and large-scale data processing
- Track record of leading security initiatives and influencing cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering, with 3+ years focusing on security tooling and risk management
- Security certifications (CISSP, CSSLP, CEH, etc.)
- Experience with cloud security and infrastructure
- Background in risk assessment frameworks and methodologies
- Experience mentoring junior security engineers

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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