Amazon
Senior Security Engineer, AWS Vulnerability Management, AWS Vulnerability Management - Host OS and Third Party Software
$178K–$227K
Austin, TX +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Seattle, WA
Arlington, VA - Experience
- 5+ years in security risk identification and mitigation; 4+ years in systems troubleshooting/log analysis/command-line automation; 4+ years in scripting, programming, and security code review. Preferred: 3+ years across listed security areas.
About the job
Own security strategy and mitigation for third-party software and software supply-chain risks across Amazon, including package registries, CI/CD toolchains, and incident response automation.
What you'll do
- Hunt and prioritize supply-chain attack paths using penetration testing and threat intelligence; define security requirements for package registries and CI/CD toolchains.
- Build and test detection-to-block automation, respond to zero-day vulnerabilities, and provide validated designs for engineering implementation.
- Review architectures and code, create reusable security frameworks, and mentor security engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command line tools.
- 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review; knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
- Industry experience identifying security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques; experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 3+ years in any combination of application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
- Experience with threat modeling or other risk identification techniques, and security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.
Pay
178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary) — USA, TX, Austin; 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary) — USA, VA, Arlington; 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary) — USA, WA, Seattle
Tools
Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go
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