Drimva

Amazon

Sr. Security Engineer, Proactive Security

$178K–$227K

Arlington, VA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 3, 2026

Experience
5+ years in specified security areas; 5+ years in the full secure software development lifecycle; 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

Secures AWS applications and services through security reviews, threat analysis, automation, and guidance to development teams.

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 metrics, and improve security processes.
  • Provide security training, guidance, and documentation to internal teams; mentor engineers and support projects and research.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years in a combination of application security, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
  • 5+ years of full secure software development lifecycle experience.
  • 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review; 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 risks and developing mitigations, security vulnerabilities and remediation, mentoring or technical leadership, and networking protocols.

Nice to have

  • Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques.
  • Experience with service-oriented architectures/microservices, web services, or device technologies.

Pay

USD 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 annually (base salary)

Tools

Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go, HTTP(S), DNS, TCP/IP

AI focus

AI security is included among the security areas in the qualifications; no specific AI-focused duties are stated.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)