Amazon Application Security Engineer AWS Gen AI 

United States, California, San Francisco 

193027365

Key job responsibilities
• Perform threat modeling and ensure proper controls are in place for AWS distributed systems, with a primary focus on AI/Gen AI systems.• Actively engage with customers, stakeholders, and industry experts, capturing customer security expectations for AI/Gen AI systems and incorporating them into the security bar.• Influence builders to be better security owners, actively engaging with them to innovate faster and bring mechanisms for upholding the high security bar.• Proactively influence AI/Gen AI systems to have security features that exceed customer security expectations for their workloads.• Produce guidance to shift security left for builders and scale security ownership by commoditizing it.• Obsess over automating well-paved paths for scaling, allowing engineers to focus on high-judgment work.• Security tool development• Delivering and improving security metrics• Assisting with recruiting activities and administrative workDiverse Experiences
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- A bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information security, a similar technical field, or equivalent professional experience can substitute for a degree.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in defensive security, threat modeling, and security review processes.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience with any combination of the following: IAM, Security Engineering, Cryptography, Vulnerability Management, Supply Chain Security, Network security, Threat modelling or Penetration testing.
- Expertise in distributed systems security, fundamental cloud security concepts around IAM, cryptography, and other security features.

- Hands-on experience with AWS basic security building blocks (IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, etc.) and their effective utilization for security controls.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Services and threat modeling around them.
- Experience in developing automation solutions for security.
- Expertise with security threats and mitigations involving Gen AI models, including multi-modal models encompassing text, image, audio, and video.
- Expertise with security threats and mitigations concerning automations built on the non-deterministic output of Gen AI.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.