Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Proactive Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSU eligibility

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Security Engineer III to lead security risk reduction efforts at massive scale in Austin, TX. You will design and validate security controls, conduct in-depth reviews, and build scalable frameworks that reduce cost and raise the security bar for engineering teams.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers and shaping mature security practices. You will collaborate with product and system owners, review architectures, and write detection scripts while balancing

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
• Experience in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Responsibilities

• Lead complex security reviews, threat modeling exercises, and security investigations across your team and partner teams, identifying risks and driving pragmatic mitigation strategies that reduce overall security exposure
• Design and build security frameworks, runbooks, and rubrics for new problem domains, enabling other engineers to apply your work in a repeatable and scalable way across the organization
• Engage proactively with product and system owners to review architectures, validate security controls, and guide teams through secure design decisions — including reviewing or writing code, scripts, and detections
• Communicate security risk and design decisions clearly in writing for both technical and non-technical audiences, and lead inclusive discussions to build consensus when navigating conflicting priorities or trade-offs
• Mentor and coach multiple security engineers, contribute to hiring assessments, and help establish mature security practices including alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospective processes for your team

Skills

Troubleshooting

Log analysis

Automation scripting

Programming languages

Security risk assessment

Mentor / tech lead

Tools

Code review

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Security Engineer III to lead security risk reduction efforts at massive scale in Austin, TX. You will design and validate security controls, conduct in-depth reviews, and build scalable frameworks that reduce cost and raise the security bar for engineering teams.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers and shaping mature security practices. You will collaborate with product and system owners, review architectures, and write detection scripts while balancing