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 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
Conduct application and mobile security reviews, identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, build security automation, and advise and mentor teams across AWS and Amazon.
What you'll do
- Review application and mobile security, including architecture, threat modeling, code, and security testing.
- Develop security automation, guidance, training, metrics, and process improvements.
- Conduct security research and projects, mentor engineers, and support recruiting and administrative work.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in a combination of listed security areas, and 5+ years across the full secure software development life cycle.
- 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience.
- Knowledge of at least two listed programming languages; networking protocol knowledge; experience identifying risks and vulnerabilities and developing mitigations.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- Experience with threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques.
- Experience with service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services, or device technologies under development.
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 work is described.
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