Senior Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering
Core
Senior Security Engineer embedding with AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams to design, build, and secure production-grade AI systems in customer environments.
Role type
Senior Security Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)
Builds
Production AI systems (agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, orchestration layers, model integrations) and reusable security tooling for FDE delivery.
Domain
Cloud Security / AI Security / Enterprise Customer Environments
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, cloud computing security, AI security, threat modeling, penetration testing, scripting/programming, security code review
Preferred skills
Security in service-oriented architectures/microservices, compliance standards (PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, NIST), AWS technologies
Technologies
Terraform, Bedrock, CI/CD pipelines, container security tools
Responsibilities
Conduct security design reviews and threat modeling for production AI systems; Embed with FDE teams to assess infrastructure security and implement controls; Build security automation and scanning capabilities for AI-specific threats; Integrate security into engineering workflows (secrets management, dependency scanning); Triage and respond to security incidents in production AI systems; Document solutions as reusable patterns and playbooks.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC