Amazon
Security Engineer, Amazon Leo Security
$159K–$202K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years programming; 2+ years troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks; alternatively, 2+ years of IT Security experience for the education qualification.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Secures Amazon Leo’s satellite broadband products and operations by setting security priorities, advising builders, identifying risks, and developing security protections.
What you'll do
- Define product security standards, threat models, and priorities; advise leaders and product teams on security decisions.
- Assess technical debt and vulnerabilities, guide secure-by-default solutions, and support security testing and incident root-cause analysis.
- Help builder teams adopt security tools and practices, improve security execution, and build security awareness.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP; knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
Nice to have
- 2+ years of any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security experience
- Experience with AWS products and services or security activities across one or more phases of the SDLC
Pay
159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS
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