Amazon
Security Engineer II, AWS Proactive Security Team
$159K–$202K
Austin, TX +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 2+ years for the scripting/programming/security code review and troubleshooting qualifications; alternatively, 2+ years of IT Security experience may meet the education qualification.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
About the job
Secures AWS applications and services through security reviews, penetration testing, security tooling, and guidance to development teams.
What you'll do
- Review application security, conduct penetration tests, and respond to emerging threat scenarios.
- Build security tools and automation, deliver security metrics, and produce security guidance.
- Provide security training and outreach to internal development teams; contribute to research and projects.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language.
- 2+ years of non-internship troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command line tools.
- 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, and industry 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, and network security.
- Experience with AWS products and services, command line troubleshooting, or security activities across the software development lifecycle.
Pay
159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary); 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP
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