Manager III, Security Engineer, AI & AGI Security

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Amazon is looking for a Security Engineering Manager with strong leadership skills and a passion for security to lead a team that ensures our AI applications are designed and built to the highest standards. Your mission is to secure the AI experiences of hundreds of millions of our customers. You bring AI security expertise and people leadership to a fast-paced environment, where you will be relied upon to build a strong team and partner with our talented software development teams to build secure AI applications.

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.

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.

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

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 & 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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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

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Manager III, Security Engineer, AI & AGI Security at Amazon rates 32 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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