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Senior Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering

$175,100–$247,600annualizedBoston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-siteSenior

View posting at Amazon (incl AWS)

About the job

Senior Security Engineer embedded with AWS Forward Deployed Engineering teams to secure production AI systems inside strategic enterprise customer environments.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

  • Conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and architecture assessments for production AI systems
  • Embed with customer-facing FDE teams to identify gaps and implement security controls
  • Build reusable scanning, testing, monitoring, and security automation tooling
  • Implement defenses against prompt injection, guardrail bypass, endpoint, data, and isolation threats

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years of experience across application security, identity and access controls, incident response, cloud security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing
  • 5+ years identifying security risks and developing mitigation plans
  • 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience
  • Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go

Technologies

AWS Bedrock · Terraform · RAG · multi-agent orchestration · CI/CD · Kubernetes/container security · Python · Java · Scala · Go

About Amazon (incl AWS)

Online retail, third-party marketplace, Prime/ads/devices, and AWS — the world's largest cloud platform powering startups and enterprises.

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$175,100–$247,600Annualized in US dollars
Location
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 more
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment type
Full-time
Experience requirements
5+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work
Internal deployment & tooling

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

This range sits above the median posted range for US FDE postings with a range ($154,000–$233,000 across 1,711 postings).