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Client: Amazon UK Services Ltd.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
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EU work permit required: Yes
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Job Views: 26
Posted: 22.06.2025
Expiry Date: 06.08.2025
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Job 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.

We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our AI Security organization that builds AI-powered security solutions to re-imagine how Amazon discovers and protects customer data and applications.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will conduct security research and collaborate with applied scientists, software engineers, as well as partner teams to develop innovative AI agent technologies that solve some of our hardest security problems, and build intelligent foundational services that support builder teams across Amazon throughout their software development journey, enabling Amazon businesses to accelerate the pace of innovation to delight our customers.

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.

    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.

    About the team
    Amazon Security:

    Diverse Experiences

    Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

    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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

    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 and 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.
    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Extensive experience and expertise in programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience.
  • Extensive experience and expertise in any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience.
  • Experience using Large Language Models (LLM) in security engineering.
    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Master's or PhD in cyber security or artificial intelligence.
  • Strong interest in researching and developing new technologies with high customer impact.
  • Strong problem-solving ability and the ability to work in ambiguous and constantly evolving environment.
  • Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

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