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Senior Security Engineer

The Enterprise Protection Program (EPP) is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our team and help identify, investigate, and mitigate insider threats to Amazon. We seek a senior security professional with experience diving deep into various types of log data and forensic results as well as conducting and leading complex and ambiguous technical investigations. The ideal candidate also combines strong analytical and investigation skills with innovative thinking to develop "think big" solutions that advance our security capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on Amazon's security posture while working with innovative tools and technologies in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Key Job ResponsibilitiesThreat Investigation & Analysis:Build sophisticated queries and process large datasets and forensic data to identify and pursue potential insider threat activity

Apply deep analytical skills to uncover new, complex security patterns and anomalies

Investigative Ownership:Conduct and lead investigations into potential insider threats in partnership with teams across legal, HR, and engineering

Lead discussions with employees related to potential security concerns

Provide comprehensive but digestible technical-based reporting to partners and leadership

Innovation & Tool Development:Develop proactive security mechanisms that leverage technical expertise. These solutions may leverage GenAI-based tools

Design and implement tools for detection, mitigation, and prevention of insider threat activity

Drive security process improvements to strengthen Amazon's internal threat protection capabilities

Leadership & Impact:Contribute to strategic security planning

Mentor junior team members and contribute to team knowledge sharing

Participate in on-call responsibilities (typically one week every two months)

A Day in the Life

Drive High-Impact Security Solutions: You'll tackle complex insider threat cases and spearhead strategic projects that directly reduce risk across Amazon's global operations. Each day brings (sometimes many!) unique challenges as you analyze threat patterns, investigate security incidents, and develop innovative approaches to protect the organization.

Collaborate Across the Enterprise: Your day involves dynamic interactions with internal security stakeholders, engineering teams, and service partners across both Amazon and AWS. You'll facilitate cross-functional meetings, provide security expertise to diverse teams, and build relationships that enable effective threat mitigation at scale.

Lead Innovation and Process Development: As a senior team member, you'll spend significant time designing and developing tools that streamline insider threat detection and response. You'll identify gaps in current processes, architect scalable solutions, and establish best practices that can be adopted organization-wide.

Mentor and Guide: Throughout your day, you'll provide guidance to junior team members, share your expertise in security investigations, and help build the next generation of insider threat investigators.

About the Team

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.