Senior Security Engineer, Ads Security

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

As a Senior Security Engineer within Amazon’s Ads Security team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that applications across numerous Ads platforms are designed and executed with the highest security standards to maintain customer trust. You will tackle a diverse array of security challenges, ranging from novel attack vectors in Ads services to selecting and implementing scalable and secure features. Additionally, you will serve as a subject matter expert, providing guidance to developers on building secure products and fostering a security-conscious culture within the organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• Experience (non-internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques

Nice To Haves

• Experience with securing GenAI powered applications and agentic systems

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat modeling, code review and penetration testing to identify security vulnerabilities in advertising applications and infrastructure.
• Contribute to security automation tooling for designing new detections within Amazon’s various security detection frameworks.
• Identify actionable solutions for identified vulnerabilities and collaborate with ads product and engineering teams to influence and prioritize their resolution.
• Contribute to fostering a strong security culture at Amazon through knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Engage in cross-team projects aimed at enhancing the security posture of Amazon and customer data throughout its lifecycle.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed