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Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations, Defensive Security

Amazon· Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
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Seattle$178.4k - $226.7kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Senior Security Engineer to join Amazon Vulnerability Management Services (AVMS); responsible for discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving remediation of vulnerabilities across Amazon ecosystem; lead automation, tooling, and collaboration with engineering and operations teams.

Responsibilities

  • Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.
  • Lead the detection and analysis of vulnerabilities through the development and optimization of vulnerability scanning, correlation, and prioritization capabilities.
  • Thoroughly investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.
  • Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
  • Partner with software engineering and operations teams to identify and increase coverage and detection capability gaps across Amazon.
  • Mentor and train junior security engineers, sharing your expertise in vulnerability management best practices.
  • Collaborate with information security leadership to set the strategic direction for the AVMS program and report on key performance metrics.
  • Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
  • 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
  • 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
  • Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
  • Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques

Skills

Required:Vulnerability managementAutomation tooling
Nice to have:Threat modeling

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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