Amazon

Senior Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

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1 month ago
Boston, MA, USA +5 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$175k - $248k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Conduct security design reviews, threat modeling, and architecture assessments for production AI systems.
  • Embed with Forward Deployed Engineering teams in customer environments to assess security posture, identify gaps, and implement controls.
  • Build reusable security automation, scanning, testing, monitoring, and security accelerators for forward-deployed AI systems.
  • Implement controls for prompt injection, guardrail bypass, model endpoint hardening, training data protection, output filtering, and data isolation.
  • Integrate security into engineering workflows through security gates, secrets management, dependency scanning, and container security.
  • Triage and respond to production security incidents and build monitoring and alerting for AI-specific security signals.
  • Document reusable security patterns, playbooks, and architectural guidance.
  • Travel up to 25%.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience across application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
  • 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
  • 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience in common programming languages.
  • Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
  • Experience with threat modeling and penetration testing, or equivalent experience demonstrating strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication.
  • US citizenship is required.
  • Preferred: experience with service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.
  • Preferred: a US government Top Secret-or-above clearance or 7+ years of IT platform implementation experience in a technical and analytical role.
  • Preferred: experience with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS technologies.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance and related medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the compensation package.
  • Work-life flexibility, mentorship, career-growth resources, and employee affinity groups are offered.
  • The role is based in listed US locations and requires up to 25% travel.

Categories

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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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