Amazon
Senior Security Engineer, AWS Security
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Arlington, VA
Annapolis Junction, MD - Experience
- 4+ years in specified troubleshooting/automation and programming/code review areas; 5+ years identifying security risks and developing mitigation plans. No stated alternative.
About the job
Build and manage large-scale security services that detect, mitigate, and prevent cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure and AWS.
What you'll do
- Research and prioritize security problems suitable for automated detection, and develop detection prototypes.
- Identify opportunities to prevent security issues at scale and advocate for technology to mitigate complex risks.
- Mentor teammates technically and professionally.
What they ask for
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- At least 5 years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review; knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
- Industry-based experience identifying security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
Nice to have
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services; AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, or SQS.
- Experience with Hadoop, Hive, Spark, or EMR, or using GuardDuty, CloudTrail, VPCFlow, or R53 Resolver Logs for detection engineering or incident response.
Pay
178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go, EC2, Lambda, S3
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