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Senior Security Engineer

Amazon
senior
Location

London, United Kingdom

Work Type

Onsite

Seniority

senior

Posted

May 22, 2026


Total Compensation
€235,000
Yearly Savings (Comfortable)
€107,000
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Job Description

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly
  • Technically, this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise
  • In their communication, they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike
  • Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively
  • Prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions
  • Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply
  • Experience (non-internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language
  • Experience (non-internship) in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools
  • Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
  • Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Experience in scaling security reviews with AI/LLM
  • Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
  • Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services

What the job involves

  • As a Senior Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services
  • In a given day, you might be inspecting an application’s code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service alongside its software developers
  • Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects
  • Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Javascript
  • Development of security automation tools
  • Adversarial security analysis using novel tools to augment manual effort
  • Security training and outreach for internal development teams
  • Security architecture and design guidance
  • Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
  • Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes
  • Be on the forefront of AI adoption in process and tooling
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