Sr. Security Engineer, Field Innovation, Security Search and Observability (SSO)

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Run customer previews, threat modeling, security-agent vulnerability assessments, and remediation guidance.
• Work backward from customers to shape detection coverage and influence service roadmaps.
• Develop detection-engineering practices, evaluate security value, reduce false positives, and measure coverage.
• Collaborate with third-party security providers to turn high-signal findings into correlated detections.
• Expand detection coverage across cloud resources, runtime, and AI/ML workloads.
• Monitor evolving cloud-security threats, including threats targeting agentic AI and ML applications.
• Collaborate with science, engineering, partner, and field teams to support global customers.

Basic qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
• 5+ years identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
• 5+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience.
• Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• Industry-based experience identifying security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering-team leader.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years in any combination of application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
• AWS architecture, security, and operations experience is preferred.
• Secure software development lifecycle experience and customer-facing experience are preferred.

Technical environment

• Security Hub, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and AWS Continuum.
• Large language models, AI-assisted development tools, security agents, agent frameworks, and retrieval-augmented generation.

Compensation

• Base salary varies by location; listed ranges are annual. Seattle range is $178,400–$226,700. Other advertised locations have separate ranges.