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Senior Security Engineer, Amazon Optics

Herndon, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time💰 $178,400–$226,700🗓 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead security risk reduction and architecture for distributed physical security systems protecting AWS data centers and corporate facilities.

Role type

Senior Security Engineer (Security Lead)

Builds

Security controls, frameworks, and threat models for physical access, alarm monitoring, and video surveillance systems.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Physical Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Security risk identification, threat modeling, security code review, scripting/programming, system troubleshooting, automation, mentoring

Preferred skills

Security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, web services

Technologies

Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go, Infrastructure as Code

Responsibilities

Lead security architecture reviews and threat modeling, design centralized security controls, construct security frameworks and runbooks, drive security investigations and root-cause analysis, review code and architecture for secure design, mentor security engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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