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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