Amazon
Security Engineer, Security for Employee and Legal Systems (SEALS)
$136K–$184K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship) experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
About the job
Secures Amazon HR and Legal applications through code reviews, threat modeling, automated detection, and security support for teams building GenAI and agentic applications.
What you'll do
- Conduct application security assessments and code reviews, investigate findings, and help builders remediate risks.
- Contribute to threat models, automated detection rules, secure-by-default infrastructure adoption, and security tooling.
- Document work and communicate security risks to engineers and leadership.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship) experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent.
- Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings.
Pay
136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, JavaScript, AWS
AI focus
Secures a portfolio adopting GenAI and agentic applications; work includes threat modeling services that use GenAI.
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