Amazon Sr Security Engineer Alexa 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

797695926

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will influence across organizations and drive secure solutions within Alexa and other AI products. You will work with developers, scientists, and product leaders to deliver magical experiences to customers, while maintaining customer trust.Invent and improve security controls for internal and external products; including Alexa. You leverage traditional security approaches, and utilize newer AI approaches when appropriate.You are self driven, and identify both problems and solutions independently.You mentor junior engineers to deliver security outcomes. You devise training, runbooks, policy, and other artifacts. You review security artifacts and help guide improvements.You are skilled at identification of vulnerabilities through code review or pentesting. You may create proof-of-concepts for vulnerabilities or new defenses.A day in the life
You incorporate AI tools into your workflows to increase efficiency without sacrificing quality.
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.You’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- Bachelor's degree
- 5 years of experience in security engineering in the context of large organizations
- In-depth understanding of security threats, hands on experience detecting and defending cyber threats
- Ability to develop code with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust and security code review.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g. tech lead, developed security architecture for a product or system, led technical component of security project, etc.)
- Experience leading and coaching junior security engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness