Description
Amazon's Corporate Security Response (AWS CorpSec) team is the front line defending one of the world's largest and most complex corporate environments. It detects, investigates, and responds to security threats across Amazon — from targeted campaigns to advanced persistent threats — operating as part of a global, follow‐the‐sun security response capability.
Role Summary
We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to serve as a Site Lead for our APAC location. This is a hands‐on technical leadership role where you will lead a team of security engineers while personally driving complex investigations, shaping autonomous security tooling, and raising the bar for operational excellence across the team.
Key Responsibilities
* Own and drive complex security investigations end‐to‐end — from triage through containment, remediation, and closure.
* Lead cross‐functional incident coordination with Legal, Security, and engineering leadership, delivering clear risk assessments and recommended actions.
* Maintain situational awareness of the global threat landscape and translate intelligence into actionable defensive measures.
* Define investigation user stories that codify expert security tradecraft into autonomous agent behavior.
* Own the quality feedback loop: review agentic output, validate scoring, and drive precision/recall toward production targets.
* Review guardrails and policies governing autonomous agent actions, balancing automation velocity with safety.
* Recruit, develop, and retain security engineers who thrive in ambiguity, form independent risk assessments, and drive outcomes through direct action.
* Provide technical mentorship across incident response, threat analysis, forensics, and security automation.
* Identify recurring patterns and systemic gaps, then deliver detection rules and automation to close them.
* Lead the transition from manual investigation to scalable agentic capabilities, measuring throughput improvements.
About the Team
CorpSec Response operates 24/7 as a global, follow‐the‐sun team protecting Amazon's corporate infrastructure. It combines deep human expertise with leading autonomous investigation capabilities. Engineers are hands‐on investigators who also shape the AI systems that augment their work — creating a unique feedback loop between human security expertise and machine‐scale automation.
Basic Qualifications
* 5+ years of managing and developing teams experience.
* 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment.
* 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.
Preferred Qualifications
* 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 design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques.
* Experience managing remote team members.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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