Amazon
Application Security Engineer, AWS Proactive Security
$159K–$202K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship work across at least 5 specified security domains; preferred: 4+ years in a combination of listed areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Validates and improves the security of AWS applications and services through reviews, testing, automation, guidance, and collaboration with development teams.
What you'll do
- Conduct application and mobile security reviews, including architecture reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and security testing.
- Build security workflow automation, provide security guidance and training, and deliver security metrics and process improvements.
- Research security issues, help address threats, and contribute to team planning and recruiting activities.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship experience across at least 5 listed security domains.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language.
- Knowledge of common software security vulnerabilities, such as OWASP top 10, and remediation techniques.
Nice to have
- 4+ years combining experience in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
- Knowledge of command-line tools; experience with AWS products and services; or experience in security activities across the software development lifecycle.
Pay
159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Python, Java, C++, OWASP top 10
AI focus
AI security is listed as one of the domains that may count toward the required experience; no specific AI work is described.
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