senior Security Engineer ic · Posted Apr 6, 2026
$178,400 – $226,700
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Security Engineer based in Austin, TX. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, C, Scala. Compensation is listed at $178,400–$226,700 per year.

Role
Security Engineer
Function
security
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Austin, TX
Department
Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
Posted
Apr 6, 2026

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Job description

from Amazon careers

What happens when you combine startup speed with Amazon-scale impact? You get this team. Amazon Enterprise Security Products is a newly launched group building intelligent, cloud-agnostic security tools using AI-first development practices. Here, you build AI and you build with AI — at the same time. This is not a traditional Security role. It's a chance to shape the future of security tooling with a small, fast team that ships like a startup and deploys like Amazon. Key job responsibilities * Drive security architecture for AI powered products: Lead security decisions across product development workstreams, ensuring AI powered security tooling is secure by design from the ground up. Shape threat models, security patterns, and guardrails that scale across multi cloud environments. * Embed security into the builder experience: Partner with engineering leaders across Amazon Security and AESP to reduce friction for builders developing secure services. Champion security practices that accelerate rather than slow delivery in a fast moving, startup paced environment. * Influence the design of AI integrated security products: Bring deep security expertise to the intersection of AI and product development. Guide the team in building agentic systems, RAG architectures, and intelligent automation pipelines that solve industry wide security…

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