Amazon
Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations, Defensive Security
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years and 5+ years, as specified in the requirements; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Leads vulnerability discovery, assessment, prioritization, and remediation operations across Amazon’s infrastructure, services, and applications.
What you'll do
- Develop and improve vulnerability detection, scanning, correlation, and prioritization capabilities; investigate and triage findings.
- Build automation, tools, and workflows, and partner with engineering and operations teams to address coverage and detection gaps.
- Mentor junior engineers, help shape program strategy and metrics, and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities.
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.
- 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 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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