As a Security Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of AI security engineers who work with software development teams to ensure the security of AI applications. You will hire, coach, and grow your engineers, set your team's priorities, and make clear risk decisions with engineering and business leaders. Your team will review code and designs for security issues, build frameworks that help developers create more secure software, perform security research, conduct risk assessments, and develop automation and tools that reduce security risks. Your leadership drives secure, reliable AI applications for Amazon's customers.
Key job responsibilities
Lead, hire, and develop a team of AI security engineers. Own their performance, career growth, and team health.
Own the security of the AI applications in your team's scope, including threat modeling, design and architecture review, manual and automated code review, risk assessments, and analysis of security bug reports.
Make and communicate clear risk decisions to engineering and business leaders, document the tradeoffs, and hold the bar when it matters.
Engage development teams early in the development process, so security is designed in from the start and late-stage tradeoffs are kept to a minimum.
Drive investment in AI security automation, tooling, and secure-by-default frameworks that let your team's expertise scale beyond manual review.
Lead AI security research into emerging threats against generative AI and agentic applications, and turn the findings into practical guidance and mechanisms.
Run AI security training and outreach for internal development teams.
Influence the priorities and processes of your team, your partner teams, and the wider AI & AGI Security organization to improve security outcomes.
Define and report metrics that show whether the program is working, such as review coverage, time to remediate, and recurrence of vulnerability classes.
About the team
The AI Security team helps the business build secure, trustworthy AI applications that our customers find delightful to use. We work closely with the business from the start of the development process so that security is built in early and consistently. Because we work as partners with the business, security rarely has to be traded off against delivery. Our close work with product teams lets us take part in deep technical discussions and decisions. We prioritize the training and career growth opportunities that let us Dive Deep and Earn Trust with our development teams.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of managing and developing teams experience
- 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
- Knowledge of security of web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security
- Experience in managing and developing teams
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- information security professional certification (SANS GIAC, CISSP etc.)
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
- Experience managing remote team members
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 175,100.00 - 236,900.00 USD annually
