We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

At Amazon, security is job zero. Amazon Security Platform Engineering provides the tools that allow Amazon to secure the cloud, our employees, and our customers.

Security is critical to Amazon's customer trust. The Amazon Security Platform Engineering team provides our security professionals the tools they need to succeed. We work across Amazon, including AWS, retail, and subsidiary business units. In support of our partners, you'll have opportunities to learn about security response and detection while building and maintaining our team's software.

We build platforms and services to develop capabilities for security engineers to automate their work.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain platform services and features using AWS to build highly scalable solutions.
- Automate deployments, upgrades and system changes to ensure continous operations
- Partner with cross-functional teams to understand their use cases and build solutions to automate their workflows.
- Enable customers to automate security tasks and track success metrics using our tooling
- Participate in on-call operations to ensure system reliability and continuity across the company
- Identify opportunities to enhance skills in software development, cloud computing and security

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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.
Why Amazon Security?
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.
Inclusive Team Culture
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.
Training & Career Growth
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.
Work/Life Balance
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.