Manager, Security Engineering, Differentiated Security Team

Do you want to protect Amazon's customers by securing newly acquired businesses across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa? As a Manager of Security Engineering on the Differentiated Security Team (DST), you will lead the security integration of Amazon's acquisitions in the EMEA region — ensuring acquired business units meet Amazon's security bar from deal close through full integration.

This is a people manager role where you will build and lead a geographically distributed team of security engineers and technical program managers. Your primary focus is M&A security integration: coordinating cross-functional security workstreams, managing post-close security findings, and driving acquired environments toward Amazon's security standards within established timelines. You will operate under the direction of the Sr. Manager, SDO Security Integration.

Beyond M&A, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to Differentiated Security Initiatives — a program that identifies and addresses security gaps in environments where Amazon's standard solutions do not meet requirements. You will influence how Amazon approaches security for non-standard environments across Stores, shaping strategy and contributing to cross-cutting solutions that reduce risk at scale.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end security onboarding for EMEA acquisitions from deal close through full integration, coordinating with Legal, Corporate Development, Network Engineering, and acquired business unit leadership to meet security requirements at each integration milestone
- Manage security findings remediation, post-close conditions, and integration health reporting for your portfolio of EMEA acquisitions, partnering with SDO-wide M&A peers to maintain consistency in security integration standards across regions
- Contribute to Differentiated Security Initiatives by identifying security gaps in non-standard environments and influencing cross-cutting solutions that reduce risk for multiple business units — prioritizing paved-path extensions and visibility before building new solutions
- Hire, develop, and manage a team of security engineers and program managers; provide coaching, career development, and performance management while fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture
- Represent your team in stakeholder forums, business reviews, and leadership engagements across the organization, driving operational excellence through clear goal-setting and metrics that demonstrate security outcomes

A day in the life
You're managing two or three EMEA acquisitions in parallel — checking integration health, unblocking your engineers deploying security tooling into acquired environments, and coordinating with Corporate Development on upcoming deals. You spend time coaching your team through difficult conversations with acquired company leadership, balancing security requirements against operational reality. When patterns emerge across integrations — recurring gaps that need broader solutions — you bring those insights to the Security Initiatives program to influence strategy at scale. No two days look the same, but the thread is consistent: protecting customers from Day 1.

About the team
The Differentiated Security Team works at the intersection of Amazon's acquisition strategy and security operations. When Amazon acquires a new business, DST ensures that business is secured to Amazon's standards — navigating diverse technology stacks, regulatory environments, and organizational cultures across the EMEA region. The team's vision is that every acquired environment achieves security parity regardless of its technology stack, with no business unit operating with unmitigated security gaps.

The coming years bring an accelerating M&A threat landscape where integration speed directly impacts security posture. You will help shape how Amazon responds — from deploying Day 1 security visibility to compressing integration timelines through automation and hands-on engineering. This is a role where your decisions directly reduce risk for millions of Amazon customers.

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.

Basic Qualifications

- 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 in managing and developing teams
- Experience in progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment
- 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

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