Amazon
Security Engineer III, AWS Proactive Security Team
$178K–$227K
Austin, TX +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 4+ years in troubleshooting/log analysis/automation and scripting/programming/security code review; 5+ years in security risk identification and mitigation planning.
About the job
Leads security risk reduction across Amazon systems by reviewing designs, building scalable security controls and frameworks, and guiding engineering teams on mitigation.
What you'll do
- Lead security reviews, threat models, and investigations; identify risks and drive mitigations.
- Build reusable security frameworks, runbooks, and rubrics, and review architectures, controls, and code.
- Communicate risk decisions, mentor security engineers, and help establish mature team security practices.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command-line tools.
- 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience; knowledge of at least two listed programming languages.
- Industry-based experience identifying security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques; experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
Nice to have
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques, or equivalent.
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.
Pay
USD 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 annually (base salary); USD 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go
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