Amazon
Sr Incident Response Engineer, Amazon Leo
$178K–$227K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in the specified security areas; 4+ years of non-internship troubleshooting, log analysis, or command-line automation experience; 5+ years identifying security risks and developing mitigation plans.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen due to applicable export control laws and regulations.
About the job
Responds to and coordinates security incidents across Amazon Leo environments, drives remediation with stakeholders, and improves incident-response tooling and processes.
What you'll do
- Triage, assess, prioritize, and oversee in-flight security issues through resolution.
- Communicate incident status to technical and non-technical stakeholders and escalate when needed.
- Improve security tooling and processes; participate in on-call shifts and document handovers.
What they ask for
- 4+ years in any combination of application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing.
- 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
- 5+ years identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
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)
AI focus
AI security is included among the security experience areas accepted in the qualifications; no other AI work is specified.
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