Drimva

Amazon

Security Engineer II, AVMS Orchestration

$159K–$202K

Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026

Experience
2+ years of IT Security experience as an alternative to a STEM bachelor's degree; 4+ years in specified security areas and 4+ years identifying risks and developing mitigation plans. Preferred: 2+ years in specified areas and 2+ years in scripting, programming, or security code review.
Education
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT Security experience.

About the job

Analyzes and triages vulnerabilities across Amazon’s systems, develops detection and automation capabilities, and supports remediation with builder teams.

What you'll do

  • Analyze vulnerability disclosures and exploit code, assess technical details and impact, and triage severity and scope.
  • Support vulnerability response and remediation, helping builder teams fix security issues.
  • Engineer scalable vulnerability detection and build automation, tools, and workflows; participate in periodic on-call responsibilities.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
  • Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
  • 4+ years of any combination of application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience.
  • 4+ years identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.

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.
  • 2+ years of scripting, programming, or security code review in a common language such as Python, Java or C++; experience with AWS products and services.

Pay

159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, Python, Java, C++, AWS

AI focus

The team uses advanced AI capabilities for remediation automation, vulnerability detection, and data-driven insights; AI security is among the listed experience areas.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)