Security Engineer, Security for Employee and Legal Systems (SEALS)
Core
Protect Amazon's enterprise HR and Legal applications, including GenAI and agentic workflows, by embedding security feedback into the development lifecycle.
Role type
Senior application security engineer (GenAI/LLM focus)
Builds
Ambient security tooling, automated detection rules, and secure CDK Blueprints for HR/Legal systems
Domain
Enterprise HR & Legal systems, Generative AI, LLM security
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
threat modeling, secure code review, architecture design review, secure agentic workflow design, transitive authentication, adversarial analysis, automated detection authoring
Preferred skills
GenAI security, prompt injection mitigation, identity management, cryptography, AWS services, SDLC security integration
Technologies
Python, Java, C++, Ruby, Go, Swift, .Net, JavaScript, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, AWS
Responsibilities
Threat model LLM-backed applications and secure agentic workflows; author automated detection rules for code commits; perform manual secure code review and hunt for tooling-missed risks; provide security architecture guidance and lead design reviews; prioritize remediation based on business impact; mentor peers on security practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship