3 days ago
Base Salary
$159k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own security for the agent platform, detection pipeline, data plane, and self-service workflows.
- Lead threat modeling and secure-design reviews for systems before autonomous execution.
- Design privileged-access, identity, authentication, and insider-risk controls for systems supporting physical security.
- Translate threat intelligence into adversary behaviors, detections, guardrails, and security controls.
- Direct offensive validation, penetration testing, and red-team engagements against Leo infrastructure and the platform itself.
- Red-team agent reasoning systems and test prompt injection, data injection, tool-access, and containment-authority risks.
- Drive security findings to closure and embed security gates into the delivery process.
- Communicate security posture, risks, and strategic priorities to senior leadership.
Requirements
- 3+ years of programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, or a similar object-oriented language.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks with command-line tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent, and a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or equivalent IT Security experience.
- Knowledge of HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP networking protocols and industry security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
- Preferred qualifications include 2+ years across threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
- Preferred experience includes AWS, Python, Java, C++, security activities across the software development lifecycle, security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing.
- Candidates must be U.S. citizens due to export control requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, and flexible spending benefits.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Flexible work hours and arrangements, ongoing training, knowledge-sharing, DEI learning experiences, and career-development resources.
- The position is available in Arlington or Herndon, Virginia, and Seattle, Washington.
About Amazon
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.