2 days ago
Herndon, VA, USA or Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$159k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Investigate, reproduce, and validate security issues across more than 200 AWS products.
- Assess vulnerability severity, exploitability, customer impact, and remediation priority using security data from multiple sources.
- Own security issues through resolution and communicate status to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- Develop and validate code-level security remediations with AWS service teams.
- Build automation to scale incident response and reduce manual effort across global operations.
- Identify systemic security patterns and drive proactive solutions that prevent recurring classes of issues.
- Mentor and coach junior engineers and influence teams across organizational boundaries.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience in a common programming language.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or at least 2 years of IT Security experience.
- At least 3 years of experience in information security, security operations, or security engineering.
- Experience working across teams and influencing teams outside the candidate's own team.
- Experience mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers.
- Experience with cloud services, cloud infrastructure, or cloud security concepts.
- Preferred experience developing code-level fixes or security patches for production cloud services.
- Preferred deep understanding of IAM policies, roles, service principals, and access control mechanisms.
- Preferred experience building automation for security operations or incident response processes.
- Preferred experience with proactive security engineering, systemic pattern identification, feedback loops, or shift-left security initiatives.
- Preferred experience with AWS services and infrastructure at the code or architecture level.
- Preferred 2+ years working with Data and AI technologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, or Storage.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements.
- Training, knowledge-sharing, and career-advancement resources.
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The role operates in a follow-the-sun rotation with global team handoffs.
- Base salary range of $159,300.00-$202,400.00 annually in Herndon, Virginia and Seattle, Washington; sign-on payments and RSUs are also included but excluded from the salary extraction.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.