Amazon
Senior Security Engineer, AWS Human Access Security
$178K–$227K
Arlington, VA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Location
- Arlington, VA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three specified experience areas; the posting also asks for mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience.
About the job
Own security design for AWS operator-access tooling, measure and reduce risky human access to production systems, and partner with engineering teams to automate safer access patterns.
What you'll do
- Define and rank high-risk access patterns, and build measurements and detections to track them.
- Drive access-tooling changes and cross-team remediation to reduce risk; investigate access security issues and implement durable improvements.
- Mentor engineers and raise security standards through design and code review.
What they ask for
- 5+ years troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
- 5+ years identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 5+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go; 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
178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go
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