Amazon
Sr Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three specified experience areas; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering-team lead.
About the job
Secures Amazon’s enterprise HR and Legal applications through application security reviews, threat modeling, security automation, and guidance for development teams.
What you'll do
- Create and maintain threat models; conduct manual and automated secure code reviews and adversarial security analysis.
- Develop security automation tools and advise application teams on secure architecture, design, and remediation.
- Train and mentor engineers, influence security strategy, and communicate risks to technical teams and senior stakeholders.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command line tools.
- 5+ years identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 5+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go; 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)
Tools
Java, Python, Javascript, Scala, C/C++, Go
AI focus
Understand AI application security threats and embrace AI to scale delivery.
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