Amazon

Senior Security Engineer, AWS Foundational Services Security

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Vancouver, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain automated security guardrails and paved paths that enable secure-by-default practices.
  • Provide secure architecture and coding guidance to development teams during ideation and design.
  • Build continuous, automated security assessment capabilities at organizational scale.
  • Contribute security fixes and paved-path solutions alongside software developers.
  • Develop scalable, self-service security tools for identifying and remediating risks.
  • Design and implement preventive and detective security controls for continuous assurance.
  • Help define long-term security strategy and participate in periodic security incident on-call rotations.
  • Use AI tools and techniques to accelerate security assessments and automate threat detection.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
  • At least 5 years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
  • At least 5 years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
  • Experience identifying industry-based security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a technical lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Preferred: experience with threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience securing service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours and arrangements that support work-life harmony.
  • Access to knowledge-sharing, training, and career-advancement resources.
  • Inclusive culture with diversity, equity, and inclusion events and learning experiences.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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