Senior Security Engineer, AWS Proactive Security

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Security Engineer III to lead security risk reduction across teams, designing and validating controls, and conducting in-depth reviews. You will mentor engineers, influence secure design decisions, and develop repeatable frameworks at scale to protect customer interests.

You will collaborate across product and system owners, guide incident response, and drive security improvements while balancing cost, risk, and speed for AWS services used by millions of

Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
• 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.
• 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

Scala

Java

Python

C/C++

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Security Engineer III to lead security risk reduction across teams, designing and validating controls, and conducting in-depth reviews. You will mentor engineers, influence secure design decisions, and develop repeatable frameworks at scale to protect customer interests.

You will collaborate across product and system owners, guide incident response, and drive security improvements while balancing cost, risk, and speed for AWS services used by millions of