SDM, S3T Engineering, Secure Third Party Tools (S3T)

The Secure Third Party Tools (S3T) engineering team develops and maintains advanced security solutions to protect Amazon customers' data. We build technologies for third party security standards to review, monitor, and remediate vulnerabilities. Our mission is to raise security standards, ensuring the highest level of data protection.
S3T Engineering serves AWS and Stores by building solutions to keep Amazon systems and data secure. We use the latest technology, including GenAI to solve security problems. We employ automation and machine learning to reduce, or eliminate, manual effort to help our internal customers raise the security bar. We have bold goals to accelerate security automation to keep pace and protect customers at scale.

Key job responsibilities
You will own the roadmap and architecture for your products. You will work closely with your customers, partner teams, and core platform engineering teams to ensure the needs of your customers are clearly understood and effectively addressed. You will collaborate with the senior leadership team to drive key engineering and data science priorities aligning to Security and businesses to achieve the right outcomes. Since our systems are foundational to the Amazon ecosystem, various businesses across Amazon depend on our solutions.

Successful candidates for this position must have experience in delivering results through their teams, hiring and developing tech and science leaders.
Why you want to be on the S3T Team : We are technology professionals, who are genuinely passionate about continuously improving the security of Amazon systems on behalf of the Amazon customer. We also take pride in reducing the effort required for service teams across Amazon to build and maintain their systems securely. We are on a mission, have fun working together, and have a culture of learning and career growth.


A day in the life
Utilize strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. You will need to Think Big for continuous planning and use mechanisms that scale to meet the broad and diverse needs of teams across Amazon. You'll employ customer obsession serving customers' needs , continually improving experiences and productivity.

About the team
We are technology professionals, who care about customers, security, continuous improvements and driving innovation. We work hard to reduce friction, cost and effort needed to securely build and maintain systems with 3Ps. We have a culture of experimentation, curiosity and growth.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working 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.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source contr