Amazon
Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 9, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years for systems troubleshooting/automation and scripting/programming/security code review; 5+ years identifying security risks and developing mitigations.
About the job
Leads security reviews and threat modeling, guides service teams, and builds security automation to reduce risks across complex systems.
What you'll do
- Lead security reviews, threat modeling, and penetration-testing engagements; track findings through remediation.
- Provide architectural security guidance and mentorship to service teams, and build security tooling and processes.
- Use generative AI and machine learning to automate reviews, improve vulnerability detection, and reduce manual work.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems, 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.
- 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
Leverage generative AI and machine learning to build security automations that streamline review workflows, enhance vulnerability detection, and reduce manual toil.
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