Security Engineering Manager, Ads Security

The Ads Security organization at Amazon is dedicated to creating innovative technical solutions that detect, assess, and mitigate security risks within Amazon’s Advertising businesses. Our vision is to accelerate the development velocity of the Advertising business by ensuring that our products are inherently secure. We are looking to hire a Security Engineering Manager that has experience in leading the technical conversation, guiding the security decisions while building large-scale, complex system security services.

You will work with a diverse, multi-disciplinary security engineering team to determine the requirements and set the bar for our security best practices and systems development.

As a Security Engineering Manager within Amazon’s Ads Security team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that applications across numerous Ads platforms are designed and executed with the highest security standards to maintain customer trust.

• Work with our peer teams and customers to design suitable software & security systems and interfaces to fulfill the mission needs.
• Collaborate with security and software engineers on embedded and software solutions to drive Ads’ secure development and operational practices.
• Drive secure by design architecture.
• Provide vision, coaching, and direction across a variety of security domains spanning proactive and operational security including application security, detections, logging, auditing and governance.
• Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build high-available software services.
• Set and clarify requirements and expectations with your team, peers, and customers.
• Drive creation of mechanisms from a security, quality, and speed perspective that enable Ads Security to scale.

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

• 5+ years of managing and developing teams experience
• 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
• Knowledge of security of web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Information security professional certification (SANS GIAC, CISSP etc.)
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Knowledge of information security technologies such as security…