Amazon's Specialized Businesses Security team is seeking a Security Engineer Manager to lead our Specialized Detections team. This is a forward-driving leadership role: you will define what this team builds, not maintain what exists today. You will own two detection workstreams that address gaps no other team at Amazon covers; the first targets vulnerability classes outside the reach of standard Builder Tools, the second delivers bespoke detection capabilities for SBS teams facing business-specific security risks. You will build a team, set its technical direction, and deliver measurable security outcomes that reduce exploitable exposure across Amazon's estate.
Key job responsibilities
- Work backwards from our Business Security Team and Builder customers to define the technical strategy for non-Builder Tools detections and specialized SBS detections
- Build, hire, and develop a team of security engineers focused on detection engineering and security automation
- Apply AI to accelerate detection development, moving from finding to production capability faster than manual rule-writing allows
- Identify coverage gaps in Amazon's detection landscape and prioritize based on exploitability and business impact to customers
- Deliver detection capabilities that produce actionable findings at scale, not reports that sit unread
- Partner with penetration testing, vulnerability intelligence, and AI tooling teams within Adversarial Engineering to create a detection-to-validation feedback loop
- Represent the team's work in business reviews, planning, and cross-org prioritization discussions
A day in the life
You split your time between people leadership and technical direction. One day you are reviewing a Detection Engineer's approach to identifying a novel deserialization pattern across SBS services and helping them scope the blast radius. The next you are in a planning session with penetration testers, turning their manual findings into AI-assisted detections that run continuously.
You spend time with SBS Business Security Teams understanding the risks they carry, then working backwards to what your team should build next quarter, informed by coverage gap analysis and intelligence from the Vulnerability Intel team.
You review findings before they go to builders to ensure they are actionable and precise, because a false positive spends a customer's trust. You hire engineers who are excited about the problem space and develop them into detection specialists.
When a new attack technique emerges, your team is the one that determines whether Amazon has exposure and builds the capability to find it at scale, in days rather than quarters, because AI compresses the distance between an idea and a working detection.
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 in progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment
- 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, NY, New York - 192,600.00 - 260,500.00 USD annually
