Amazon
Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security
$178K–$227K
Austin, TX · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in systems troubleshooting/log analysis/command-line automation; 5+ years identifying security risks and developing mitigations; 4+ years in scripting, programming, and security code review. Also requires mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience.
About the job
Leads security reviews and threat modeling, guides service teams on secure design, and builds security automation—including AI-powered tools—to reduce risk across Amazon services.
What you'll do
- Conduct security reviews, threat modeling, targeted manual code reviews, and oversee penetration testing through remediation.
- Advise and mentor engineering teams, track security findings, and develop security guidance, tooling, and metrics.
- Build generative AI and machine-learning automations to streamline reviews, improve vulnerability detection, and reduce manual work.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
- 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 4+ years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
- 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
AI focus
Use generative AI and machine learning to build security automations that streamline review workflows, enhance vulnerability detection, and reduce manual toil.
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