Amazon
Security Engineer II, AWS Cloud Security Response
$159K–$202K
Seattle, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Herndon, VA - Experience
- 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review; 3+ years in information security, security operations, or security engineering. STEM bachelor's 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
Investigates and resolves security issues across AWS services through risk assessment, code-level remediation, security data analysis, and automation.
What you'll do
- Reproduce, assess, and own security issues through resolution, including evaluating vulnerability severity and customer impact.
- Develop and validate code remediations and automation, and identify systemic patterns to prevent recurring security gaps.
- Coordinate with service teams and stakeholders, communicate issue status, and escalate when resolution urgency is insufficient.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience in a common programming language.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
- Experience working across and influencing teams, and mentoring, leading, or managing junior engineers.
- Experience in cloud services, cloud infrastructure, or cloud security concepts; 3+ years in information security, security operations, or security engineering.
Nice to have
- Experience developing code-level fixes or security patches for production cloud services; deep understanding of IAM and access control.
- Experience building security operations automation, proactive security engineering, or working with AWS services at code or architecture level; 2+ years with Data & AI technologies.
Pay
USD 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 annually base salary; USD 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 annually base salary
Tools
AWS, IAM, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, Storage
AI focus
Use generative AI tools to accelerate security work; preferred experience includes 2+ years working with Data & AI-related technologies, including AI/ML and GenAI.
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