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Security Engineer II, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)

Amazon· Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
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Seattle$159.3k - $202.4kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Security Engineer II within the Amazon Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) focusing on responding to security events, conducting threat analysis, and strengthening incident response capabilities to protect sensitive data at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Responding to security incidents, and coordinating a cohesive response involving multiple teams across Amazon.
  • Providing security engineering solutions and support during customer-facing incidents, proactively considering the prevention of similar incidents from occurring in the future.
  • Assisting in the development of pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.
  • Identifying and recommending solutions that improve or expand Amazon’s incident response capabilities.
  • Working alongside and mentoring Information Security engineers to improve security, reduce and quickly address risk.
  • Evaluating the impact of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research to Amazon, coordinating response as necessary across affected teams.
  • Keeping your knowledge and skills current with the rapidly changing threat landscape.
  • Participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience
  • 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
  • 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
  • Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
  • Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship experience)

Skills

Required:Security incident responseThreat analysisRoot-cause analysisProgramming/scripting

Benefits

  • Base salary and sign-on payments/RSUs
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and other benefits
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave
  • Flexible work hours and arrangements
  • DEI EVENTS and learning experiences
  • Career growth and training resources
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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