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Security Engineer, Healthcare Security

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Description
Amazon's Healthcare Security organization is currently hiring for a Security Engineer to help lead a team of security engineers tackling challenging AI security problems at scale. Successful candidates for this position must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for someone who takes pride in meaningful work that will improve healthcare outcomes for customers.

Description
Amazon's Healthcare Security organization is currently hiring for a Security Engineer to help lead a team of security engineers tackling challenging AI security problems at scale. Successful candidates for this position must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for someone who takes pride in meaningful work that will improve healthcare outcomes for customers.
In This Role

  • You will conduct security research on AI-powered mechanisms for discovering and protecting customer data and applications at scale, effectively and efficiently.
  • You will ensure security of agentic workflows.
  • You will develop automated systems integrated into Amazon’s security infrastructure.
  • You will research and prototype new security solutions, evaluating design approaches for technical feasibility.
The ideal candidate has strong technical knowledge in Generative AI, Machine Learning, secure software development, experience designing and implementing security controls for agentic workloads, high judgment to prioritize and address security risks, and experience holding high standards for security controls and work products.
Key job responsibilities
  • Own the security of AI workloads building protections that enable secure development of Amazon’s healthcare services and continue to protect customer data.
  • Partner with engineering leaders in Amazon Health Services to securely implement AI and agentic services.
  • Work closely with your customers, partner teams, and foundational engineering teams to ensure the needs of your customers are clearly understood and effectively addressed.
  • Drive adoption and integration of Amazon's paved path security solutions across subsidiaries.
  • Recruit, coach, develop, and scale a team of world class security engineers, providing strategic and tactical oversight to maintain a motivated, innovative, and effective team.
A day in the life
This position within the Healthcare Security team represents a rare opportunity to get in with a fast-growing business. You will lead teams to protect AI enabled services interacting with customer information and our infrastructure. A successful candidate will bring deep technical security and software expertise, strong business acumen, and judgment. You will use your ability to define ground breaking products, hire and lead teams, and demonstrate an ability to work within a fast-moving environment to rapidly deliver services that have broad business impact.
You will continue to raise the security bar of AI enabled services in production and ensure that there are mechanisms and metrics to improve security. You will need to be an exceptional organizational leader, who can hire, grow and retain a diverse and talented team of cybersecurity professionals to deliver this mission.
About The Team
At Amazon, we're on an ambitious journey to transform how people experience healthcare - making it radically simpler, more accessible, and truly customer-centric. We're not just dreaming about the future of medicine - we're actively building it through innovative technology solutions that put healthcare at fingertips of millions of people. Every day, our teams push boundaries to create seamless ways for customers to discover, access, and engage with the healthcare services they need. We're combining Amazon's culture of customer obsession with technology to break down traditional barriers in healthcare. And while we're moving fast to revolutionize the industry, we never compromise on what matters most: customer trust.
Amazon’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access healthcare products, reinvent healthcare and deliver the future of medicine. Towards this mission, Amazon is building technology, products, and services that help customers find, buy, and engage with the healthcare solutions they need. Because maintaining customer trust is the foundation of our business, we build healthcare services with industry leading security controls that protect our customers’ most sensitive data.
Join us as we reshape healthcare for generations to come!
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.
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.
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 and 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.
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Basic Qualifications
  • 3+ years of experience planning, designing, developing, and delivering consumer software services
  • 3+ years experience implementing security controls for software services
  • Foundational understanding of AI and how agentic AI functions
  • Experience partnering with product or program management teams
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience and stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building software services and security controls in a regulated industry
  • 5+ years of experience building large modular systems
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A

Seniority level

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    Not Applicable

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Quality Assurance, Information Technology, and Engineering
  • Industries

    Software Development

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