Drimva

Amazon

Security Engineer, Security for Employee and Legal Systems (SEALS)

$159K–$202K

Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026

Experience
3+ years programming; 2+ years in each of the specified security-code-review and systems troubleshooting areas. STEM degree or IT Security experience is accepted.
Education
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security.

About the job

Secures Amazon’s HR and Legal applications by partnering with builder teams, reducing risks throughout development, and addressing security issues in GenAI and agentic workflows.

What you'll do

  • Threat-model GenAI applications and secure agentic workflows, including authentication and authorization.
  • Review designs and code, guide remediation, and create automated detections that provide security feedback during development.
  • Own security outcomes for assigned teams, promote secure development paths, and communicate risks and outcomes to stakeholders.

What they ask for

  • 3+ years programming in a listed language or similar object-oriented language.
  • 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship).
  • 2+ years troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks with command-line tools (non-internship).
  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, or experience in IT Security; knowledge of security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.

Nice to have

  • 2+ years in a combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
  • Knowledge of HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP; AWS experience; or security activities across the SDLC.

Pay

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

Tools

Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS

AI focus

Threat-model and secure GenAI/LLM applications and agentic workflows; use GenAI for code review, detection authoring, and triage.

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