Senior Security Engineer, AWS Vulnerability Management, AWS Vulnerability Management - Host OS and Third Party Software
Amazon3 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Hunt for adversarial attack paths through Amazon’s third-party software packages and supply-chain components using penetration testing and threat intelligence.
- Define and enforce security requirements for Amazon’s curated package registry and major CI/CD toolchains, and provide validated designs for software development engineers to implement.
- Build and test detection-to-block automation for supply-chain incidents and lead rapid response to zero-day vulnerabilities in internet-facing third-party appliances.
- Perform architecture reviews, code reviews, and security framework development to improve the security of code repositories.
- Communicate risk assessments and design decisions to technical peers and senior leadership while mentoring security engineers and shaping team practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
- Non-internship experience identifying industry-based security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team leader.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of combined experience in application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
- Preferred: experience with threat modeling or equivalent risk-identification techniques and with security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental health support, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of the work culture.
- Training, knowledge-sharing, and career-advancement resources are available.
- The listed annual base salary range is $178,400 to $226,700 for Austin, Texas; Arlington, Virginia; and Seattle, Washington, with sign-on payments and restricted stock units also included in the package.
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.