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Are you a developer who loves making security approachable and building bridges between deep technical concepts and the people who build on AWS? Do you get excited about helping external developers ship more securely without slowing them down, including the new generation building AI-powered applications? Are you passionate about growing developer communities and turning hard security problems into clear, usable guidance? If you are a natural teacher with strong technical depth and excellent communication skills, we want to talk to you.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate to join our AWS Security Customer Outcomes team. In this role, you will lead developer engagement focused on security, driving adoption of AWS security services and secure-by-design practices while fostering a thriving community of developers who build securely on AWS.
Your mission is to improve the security experience for external developers on AWS. You will meet developers where they are, understand the friction they hit when securing their applications and workloads, and turn that insight into content, tools, and product feedback that makes building securely the easy path. A core part of that mission is helping developers secure the AI development life cycle (AI-DLC), from how they source and handle training data to how they deploy, monitor, and guard agentic and generative AI workloads. You will also show developers how to use AI itself to accelerate security, bringing security review, threat modeling, and remediation earlier and faster into the way they build. Alongside this, you will champion open source security, contributing to and uplifting the open-source projects and tooling that developers rely on, and helping the broader community build and ship secure software supply chains.
Estimated 25% travel required for the role.
Key job responsibilities You will create engaging technical content, including tutorials, blog posts, reference architectures, and sample applications, that helps external developers secure their workloads on AWS. This includes guidance for securing AI-powered and agentic applications across the AI development life cycle, and practical examples of using AI-assisted tooling to speed up secure coding, threat modeling, and vulnerability remediation.
You will represent AWS Security at conferences, meetups, and online events, delivering technical talks and workshops that educate and inspire developers to adopt secure-by-design practices. You will gather developer feedback on security pain points, including the emerging challenges of building and securing AI systems, and feed it directly into the AWS Security product roadmap, working closely with service teams to ensure our security services and the broader platform meet real developer needs.
You will build and nurture relationships with developer communities and actively contribute to open-source security projects and tooling, helping raise the security bar across the ecosystem and establishing yourself as a trusted security voice in the technical community.
A day in the life Your day might begin by reviewing developer questions on community forums and social channels, spotting a recurring security pain point, and starting a technical blog post that addresses it. You might spend the middle of your day with a security service team, sharing field insights and shaping an upcoming feature so it is easier for developers to adopt securely.
After lunch, you could record a tutorial demonstrating how to use an AI coding assistant to catch security issues before they ship, then join a remote meetup to give a technical talk on securing agentic AI workloads. Later, you might build code samples for a hands-on security workshop or help plan AWS Security presence at a developer conference.
Throughout the day, you are engaging with developers, sharing practical security guidance, and staying current with both the threat landscape and AWS service changes while keeping your own skills sharp through hands-on building.
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.
- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent - 7+ years of full stack development experience - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby - Experience in any combination of the following: application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, secure infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls, threat modeling, cryptography, threat intelligence, or secure software development - Excellent communication and public speaking skills, with experience delivering technical content to developers of varied backgrounds - Experience creating technical content such as blogs, tutorials, and hands-on workshops
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems - Experience working with AWS Services - Knowledge of security best practices - Demonstrable experience engaging with developer communities, including meetups, conferences, or active participation on platforms like GitHub, Stack Overflow, or developer forums - Demonstrated contribution to or leadership in open-source security projects, tooling, or communities, with a track record of improving the security of widely-used open source software - Experience securing applications across the development life cycle, including AI or machine learning workloads such as data handling, model deployment, or agentic and generative AI systems - Experience using AI-assisted tools to improve engineering outcomes, such as AI-powered code review, security scanning, threat modeling, or automated remediation
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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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