Amazon
Security Engineer, Identity and Access Management
$159K–$202K
Dallas, TX · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of programming; 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review; 2+ years of non-internship troubleshooting, log analysis, or command-line automation.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Secures Amazon identity infrastructure by reviewing authentication designs and code, automating audits, investigating security events, and advising teams on IAM practices.
What you'll do
- Review identity-system threat models and authentication protocol implementations, recommending mitigations.
- Automate security audits and compliance reporting, and investigate identity security alerts and events.
- Consult with teams on authentication technologies and communicate security findings and recommendations.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of programming experience 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 experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command-line tools.
- Knowledge of networking protocols and security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
Nice to have
- 2+ years in any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
- Experience with AWS products and services or security activities across the software development lifecycle.
Pay
159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, OAuth
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