Security Engineering Manager Jobs in Massachusetts
Security Engineering Manager jobs in Massachusetts are highly active, concentrated in cybersecurity, financial technology, defense contracting, and life sciences across a market that ranks among the most competitive in the country for this role, with openings at every level from senior engineer stepping into management through director-adjacent positions. The deepest hiring is in Greater Boston, Cambridge, and Burlington, where employers like Raytheon Technologies, Liberty Mutual, and Fidelity Investments maintain significant security engineering leadership teams. The most in-demand specialties are cloud security architecture, application security program management, and governance, risk, and compliance leadership. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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You will conduct security reviews, write security tooling, perform threat modeling, and implement controls that protect AI systems built by FDE engineers. You work alongside FDE delivery pods in customer environments, getting hands-on with production code, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML pipelines. You learn fast, ship fast, and build security into the system rather than bolting it on after the fact.
This is a hands-on security engineering role where you spend most of your time writing code, reviewing architectures, and testing systems. You work with senior security engineers who will mentor you, but you own real security deliverables from your first engagement. If you want to learn AI security by doing it, in production, at enterprise scale, this is the role.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.
Key job responsibilities
- Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments for production AI systems (agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, orchestration layers, model integrations) under guidance from senior security engineers
- Perform threat modeling and penetration testing for AI/ML applications deployed in customer environments; identify vulnerabilities and work with FDE engineers to implement fixes before production release
- Build and maintain security automation: scanning tools, CI/CD security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency vulnerability checks for forward-deployed AI systems
- Implement security controls for AI-specific threats: prompt injection prevention, output filtering, data isolation, model API endpoint hardening, and guardrail configuration
- Support security incident response for FDE-delivered production AI systems; assist with triage, root cause analysis, and remediation under senior engineer guidance
- Document security findings, patterns, and remediation guidance as reusable playbooks and runbooks that benefit future FDE engagements
- Contribute to the FDE security accelerator library: reusable modules, templates, and reference configurations that help FDE engineers build secure AI systems faster
- Requires up to 25% travel
A day in the life
You start the morning running your automated security scan against a new Bedrock-powered application an FDE pod shipped overnight, triaging the findings and filing issues for two real vulnerabilities. Mid-morning you pair with an FDE engineer to fix an IAM policy that's overly permissive for their multi-agent orchestration system. After lunch you're writing a Python script that automates guardrail bypass testing for the team's standard deployment pattern. You close out the day joining a threat modeling session led by a senior security engineer, where you learn how to assess data flow risks in a customer's RAG pipeline. Every week you're working on a different AI architecture, building skills you can't get anywhere else.
About the team
AWS Forward Deployed Engineering embeds AI engineers directly inside strategic enterprise customers to build production AI systems. AWS invested $1B in this initiative. We move at the speed of the customer: demonstrating ROI in weeks, not quarters. We are customer-obsessed. We lead customers toward outcomes, build together, and leave behind scalable patterns. Security is our enabling function: without it, nothing goes to production. Our culture is people-first, anti-burnout, bold, and engineering-excellence-driven.
ABOUT AWS:
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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 AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
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 in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 2+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
- 2+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- 2+ years hands on building AI/agentic systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
- US government security clearance of top secret or above
- Experience with compliance & security standards including PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.
USA, CA, Mountain View - 166,600.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually
USA, MA, Boston - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 159,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
You will conduct security reviews, write security tooling, perform threat modeling, and implement controls that protect AI systems built by FDE engineers. You work alongside FDE delivery pods in customer environments, getting hands-on with production code, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML pipelines. You learn fast, ship fast, and build security into the system rather than bolting it on after the fact.
This is a hands-on security engineering role where you spend most of your time writing code, reviewing architectures, and testing systems. You work with senior security engineers who will mentor you, but you own real security deliverables from your first engagement. If you want to learn AI security by doing it, in production, at enterprise scale, this is the role.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.
Key job responsibilities
- Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments for production AI systems (agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, orchestration layers, model integrations) under guidance from senior security engineers
- Perform threat modeling and penetration testing for AI/ML applications deployed in customer environments; identify vulnerabilities and work with FDE engineers to implement fixes before production release
- Build and maintain security automation: scanning tools, CI/CD security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency vulnerability checks for forward-deployed AI systems
- Implement security controls for AI-specific threats: prompt injection prevention, output filtering, data isolation, model API endpoint hardening, and guardrail configuration
- Support security incident response for FDE-delivered production AI systems; assist with triage, root cause analysis, and remediation under senior engineer guidance
- Document security findings, patterns, and remediation guidance as reusable playbooks and runbooks that benefit future FDE engagements
- Contribute to the FDE security accelerator library: reusable modules, templates, and reference configurations that help FDE engineers build secure AI systems faster
- Requires up to 25% travel
A day in the life
You start the morning running your automated security scan against a new Bedrock-powered application an FDE pod shipped overnight, triaging the findings and filing issues for two real vulnerabilities. Mid-morning you pair with an FDE engineer to fix an IAM policy that's overly permissive for their multi-agent orchestration system. After lunch you're writing a Python script that automates guardrail bypass testing for the team's standard deployment pattern. You close out the day joining a threat modeling session led by a senior security engineer, where you learn how to assess data flow risks in a customer's RAG pipeline. Every week you're working on a different AI architecture, building skills you can't get anywhere else.
About the team
AWS Forward Deployed Engineering embeds AI engineers directly inside strategic enterprise customers to build production AI systems. AWS invested $1B in this initiative. We move at the speed of the customer: demonstrating ROI in weeks, not quarters. We are customer-obsessed. We lead customers toward outcomes, build together, and leave behind scalable patterns. Security is our enabling function: without it, nothing goes to production. Our culture is people-first, anti-burnout, bold, and engineering-excellence-driven.
ABOUT AWS:
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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 AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
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 in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
10047
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 2+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
- 2+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- 2+ years hands on building AI/agentic systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
- US government security clearance of top secret or above
- Experience with compliance & security standards including PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.
USA, CA, Mountain View - 166,600.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually
USA, MA, Boston - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 159,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
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What Massachusetts Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in security engineering manager jobs across Massachusetts.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related technical field
- Five or more years of security engineering experience with at least two in a leadership role
- CISSP, CISM, or equivalent professional security certification strongly preferred by Massachusetts employers
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional security teams in cloud or hybrid environments
- Hands-on background in threat modeling, vulnerability management, or security architecture at scale
- Familiarity with NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 compliance frameworks common in Massachusetts regulated industries
Security Engineering Manager Jobs in Massachusetts: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a security engineering manager in Massachusetts?
The path typically starts with a technical security engineering role and progresses through senior individual contributor positions before moving into management. Massachusetts does not require a state-issued license for this role, but employers consistently expect credentials like the CISSP or CISM alongside a bachelor's degree in a technical field. Experience leading incident response, security architecture, or compliance programs at a Massachusetts-based financial services, defense, or healthcare organization is a strong differentiator.
How much do security engineering managers make in Massachusetts?
Security engineering managers in Massachusetts earn a median of about $109,590 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $55,740 for the lowest 10% to over $183,460 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire security engineering managers in Massachusetts?
Employers hiring security engineering managers in Massachusetts right now include MKS, Whoop, and Deloitte, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Massachusetts's concentration of financial services, defense contractors, and health technology firms means demand for this role stays consistent across economic cycles.
Which Massachusetts cities have the most security engineering manager jobs?
Boston, Andover, and Arlington account for the largest share of security engineering manager openings in Massachusetts. Boston drives the concentration due to its density of financial institutions, biotech firms, and consulting headquarters, while Burlington and Waltham attract significant hiring from defense contractors and enterprise technology companies that have established major campuses along Route 128.
Are there remote security engineering manager jobs in Massachusetts?
Yes, and more than many management roles in other fields. About 0% of security engineering manager openings tied to Massachusetts are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting the desk-based and program-driven nature of much of the work. The parts of the role most likely to stay fully remote are governance, policy development, and team oversight, while positions requiring hands-on lab work or cleared-facility access typically require on-site presence.
How can I get hired as a security engineering manager in Massachusetts with little or no experience?
The most realistic path is moving from a senior security engineer or team lead role into a first-time manager position rather than applying directly to manager-level postings. Massachusetts defense contractors and financial institutions such as those concentrated along Route 128 and in the Seaport district regularly promote strong individual contributors into leadership. Earning a CISSP or CISM credential, taking ownership of a security initiative, and building experience with compliance frameworks like NIST or SOC 2 positions candidates for that first management step.
Where can I find and apply to security engineering manager jobs in Massachusetts?
You can find and apply to security engineering manager jobs in Massachusetts on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the listings, find roles that match your background and target location, and apply directly.
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