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Base Salary
$159k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Identify recurring security patterns across AWS services and drive proactive root-cause solutions.
- Build automation to scale incident-response procedures and reduce manual operational effort.
- Own security issues from identification through resolution, including risk assessment and remediation prioritization.
- Reproduce and validate vulnerabilities to assess exploitability, customer impact, and scope.
- Investigate security data from multiple sources to inform response and remediation decisions.
- Develop and validate code-level remediations in partnership with AWS service teams.
- Communicate security issues and resolution status to technical and non-technical audiences, escalating when necessary.
- Participate in a follow-the-sun rotation and document work for incoming global teammates.
- Mentor and coach junior engineers on security practices and professional growth.
Requirements
- 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review experience in a common programming language, excluding internship experience.
- A bachelor's degree in a STEM field or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
- 4+ 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-related technologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, databases, or storage.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental-health support, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Flexible work hours and arrangements supporting work-life balance.
- Training, knowledge-sharing, DEI learning experiences, and career-advancement resources.
- The role operates in a follow-the-sun model with teams across four geographic locations.
- The stated base salary range is $159,300.00-$202,400.00 USD annually, with sign-on payments and RSUs 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.