Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Management Ops

VulnU; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Retirement match

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Amazon Seattle is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations. You will lead vulnerability assessment, triage, and remediation, and drive automation to improve detection and response across services.

You will mentor engineers, partner with software teams, and contribute to AVMS strategy in a global, on-call environment. Startup quality and security leadership are expected in this senior role.

Qualifications

• 4+ years troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• 5+ years identifying security issues and developing mitigation plans.
• 4+ years scripting, programming, and security code review in common languages.
• Knowledge of at least two languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• Experience identifying vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
• Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.

Responsibilities

• Understand and assess vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.
• Lead the detection and analysis of vulnerabilities through scanning, correlation, and prioritization.
• Triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and scope of potential impact.
• Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance operations.
• Partner with software engineering and operations to increase coverage and detection capability gaps.
• Mentor and train junior security engineers, sharing best practices.
• Collaborate with leadership to set strategic AVMS direction and report KPIs.
• Be part of a global team with on-call responsibilities for continuous monitoring and remediation.

Skills

Troubleshooting & automation

Security risk identification

Scripting & secure code review

Multi-language knowledge

Vulnerability identification & remedi

Threat modeling

Security in microservices

Job description

Amazon Seattle is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations. You will lead vulnerability assessment, triage, and remediation, and drive automation to improve detection and response across services.

You will mentor engineers, partner with software teams, and contribute to AVMS strategy in a global, on-call environment. Startup quality and security leadership are expected in this senior role.