Senior Security Engineer, Amazon Security Automation

Company: AMAZON UK
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Location: London
Job Description:

Description

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.

Key job responsibilities

  • Conduct security research on AI-powered mechanisms for discovering and protecting customer data and applications at scale effectively and efficiently.
  • Ensure our agentic workflows deliver high impact security value.
  • Develop automated systems integrated into Amazon’s security infrastructure.
  • Research and prototype new security solutions, evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.

A day in the life

Our days are varied, and our remit is broad. You will scale security agents across Amazon, and you will ensure those agents apply up-to-date security expertise to their problems.

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language.
  • Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
  • Experience identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
  • Experience in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
  • Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Posted: September 21st, 2026