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Sr. Manager, Security Engineering, Corporate Services Security (CPSS)

Amazon.com Inc

  • Arlington, VA
  • 3 days ago

    Highlights

    On a given day you might review a proposal for a new detection strategy covering LLM features across HR applications, coach a manager through a staffing decision, negotiate security priorities with a VP-level builder partner, or work through a team structure change to cover an emerging GenAI threat domain. Define your team"s security strategy, including how your team threat models GenAI and LLM-backed applications, secures agentic workflows, and drives adoption of secure-by-default infrastructure across builder teams.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationArlington, VA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    Lead the security team that protects the HR and Legal applications millions of Amazonians trust with their most sensitive data. You will own the strategy, the team, and the outcomes as we shift to continuous automated security evaluation and tackles a new generation of GenAI and agentic application threats.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Define your team"s security strategy, including how your team threat models GenAI and LLM-backed applications, secures agentic workflows, and drives adoption of secure-by-default infrastructure across builder teams.
    • Design and evolve the team to match the work. Identify gaps in skills, roles, and coverage, restructure when priorities shift, and build a bench of future leaders who can operate independently.
    • Partner with VP-level builder leadership across HR and Legal organizations to align security priorities with business priorities, using data to make the case and negotiating when goals compete.
    • Own the transition from scheduled reviews to continuous automated evaluation. Set the roadmap, resource the investment, measure the outcomes, and course-correct as the model matures.
    • Build the operational mechanisms your team runs on: escalation paths, inspection cadences, delivery metrics, and feedback loops that surface problems early and scale without adding headcount.
    • Communicate the security posture and strategy for your domain to senior leadership. Write clearly, present confidently, and translate technical risk into business terms.

    A day in the life

    On a given day you might review a proposal for a new detection strategy covering LLM features across HR applications, coach a manager through a staffing decision, negotiate security priorities with a VP-level builder partner, or work through a team structure change to cover an emerging GenAI threat domain. You spend your time on the problems and people that set the direction for the next year and beyond, and you build the systems that keep the current quarter running without you in every decision.

    About the team

    SEALS is a team of security engineers and managers embedded with the development teams that build Amazon"s HR and Legal applications. Your engineers partner directly with builders, reviewing designs and writing detections so security feedback arrives while the code is still fresh. You will collaborate with peer security teams covering finance and communications technology when risks cross domain boundaries. The portfolio is adopting GenAI and agentic capabilities fast, so the security problems are changing in real time. We value clear thinking over heroics, sustainable pace over crunch, and invest equally in technical and management career paths.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
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