Amazon
Sr. Security Engineer, Proactive Security
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in specified security areas; 5+ years of secure software development life cycle; 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Reviews and improves the security of Amazon applications, services, and mobile products through security assessments, automation, guidance, and threat response.
What you'll do
- Conduct application and mobile security reviews, including architecture reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and security testing.
- Build security workflow automation; deliver security metrics and process improvements.
- Provide security training, guidance, and documentation to development teams; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in a combination of application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
- 5+ years of secure software development life cycle experience; 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field; experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
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, OWASP top 10, TCP/UDP, TLS
AI focus
AI security is listed among the areas of experience accepted in the role’s basic qualifications; no specific AI duties are described.
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