Security Engineer II — AVMS Orchestration

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Security Engineer II for the AVMS Orchestration team in Austin, TX. You will analyze vulnerability disclosures, assess impact, triage issues, and help builder teams remediate security gaps at machine speed.

Join a global, on‑call friendly team that builds automated detection, risk insights, and scalable security tooling while advancing vulnerability management across Amazon’s complex services and platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or 2+ years IT Security experience.
• Knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP/DNS/TCP-IP).
• Experience across security domains: incident response, cloud security, threat intel, and pen testing.

Responsibilities

• Analyze vulnerability disclosures and exploit code.
• Assess vulnerability impact across Amazon infrastructure and applications.
• Investigate, triage, and scope vulnerabilities for remediation.
• Support response and remediation with builder teams.
• Engineer scalable detection mechanisms and automation.

Skills

Networking protocols

Incident response

Cloud security basics

Threat intelligence

Penetration testing

Security scripting (Python/Java/C++)

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

2+ years IT Security experience

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon seeks a Security Engineer II for the AVMS Orchestration team in Austin, TX. You will analyze vulnerability disclosures, assess impact, triage issues, and help builder teams remediate security gaps at machine speed.

Join a global, on‑call friendly team that builds automated detection, risk insights, and scalable security tooling while advancing vulnerability management across Amazon’s complex services and platforms.