Amazon
Application Security Engineer, AWS Security
$159K–$202K
Austin, TX +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 3+ years programming; 2+ years each in scripting/programming/security code review and systems troubleshooting/log analysis/command-line automation. Degree or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
About the job
Protect AWS and Amazon applications and services by assessing security, finding and addressing vulnerabilities, and developing security tools and guidance.
What you'll do
- Perform application security reviews and penetration testing; research security issues.
- Develop security tools, metrics, and guidance, and train internal development teams.
- Analyze application and service security, respond to new threats, and contribute to security projects and process improvements.
What they ask for
- 3+ years programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or a similar object-oriented language.
- 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks with command-line tools.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT Security experience; knowledge of HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, security vulnerabilities, and remediation.
Nice to have
- 2+ years in any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security.
- Experience with AWS products and services, programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, or security activities across the SDLC.
Pay
USD 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 annually (base salary); USD 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS
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