Senior Security Engineer, Ads Security

Overview

The Ads Security organization at Amazon is dedicated to creating innovative technical solutions that detect, assess, and mitigate security risks within Amazon’s Advertising businesses. Our vision is to accelerate the development velocity of the Advertising business by ensuring that our products are inherently secure. We are seeking a talented Senior Security Engineer to join our team, where you will have the opportunity to contribute to securing web applications and services critical to delivering exceptional customer and partner experiences at scale in Amazon Ads.

• Design and build AI powered security automation solutions to fix security issues at scale.
• Develop and maintain agentic AI workflows that enable faster security issue resolution.
• Build evaluation frameworks and feedback loops to continuously measure and improve the accuracy, reliability, and safety of AI driven security tools.
• Partner with other teams at Amazon to fine tune models for specific use cases in Amazon Ads, including anomaly detection, log analysis, and natural language security querying.
• Define technical roadmaps for security automation initiatives, influencing org level priorities and driving alignment across partner teams.
• Author and review technical design documents, threat models, and architecture proposals for security automation services.
• Mentor engineers across the organization on best practices such as secure AI/ML system development and security automation patterns.
• Establish operational excellence standards for AI security systems, including monitoring, alerting, and human in the loop safeguards.
• Participate in on call rotations for security automation services, ensuring rapid response to production incidents and service degradation.
• Provide regular updates to leadership on project status, risks, and strategic decisions through written narratives and review mechanisms.
• Contribute to operational planning (OP1/OP2) including goal setting, resource planning, and roadmap prioritization for the team.
• Participate in helping to grow and develop a high performing engineering team.
• Support team development through code reviews, technical mentoring, career coaching, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Perform ad-hoc security related initiatives as needed.

Diverse Experiences:
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. If you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

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.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience
• 2+ years of…