Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations, Defensive Security
Amazon3 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Assess the technical details, severity, and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon’s infrastructure, services, and applications.
- Develop and optimize vulnerability scanning, correlation, prioritization, detection, and remediation capabilities.
- Investigate and triage vulnerabilities and identify gaps in detection and coverage.
- Design and implement automation, tools, and workflows to improve vulnerability management operations.
- Partner with software engineering and operations teams to expand vulnerability coverage and detection capabilities.
- Mentor and train junior security engineers on vulnerability management practices.
- Collaborate with information security leadership on AVMS strategy and performance metrics.
- Participate in periodic on-call responsibilities for continuous vulnerability monitoring and remediation.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- At least 5 years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review using common programming languages.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
- Non-internship industry experience identifying security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
- Preferred experience applying threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques or equivalent.
- Preferred experience with security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of Amazon’s work-life culture.
- The role offers knowledge-sharing, training, mentorship, and career-development resources.
- Benefits include health, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental health support, medical advice, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The compensation package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units, with periodic on-call participation required.
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.