Senior Vulnerability Management & Remediation Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Health benefits

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Vulnerability Management Services (AVMS) team. The role focuses on discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.

You will lead detection and analysis, design automation, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership to set strategic AVMS direction, with periodic on-call responsibilities and global teamwork.

Qualifications

• 4+ years troubleshooting systems issues and automating tasks with 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 from Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• Experience in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification and remediation.

Responsibilities

• Assess vulnerability details and potential impact across Amazon infrastructure, services, and applications.
• Lead detection and analysis through vulnerability scanning, correlation, and prioritization.
• Triage vulnerabilities, determine severity and scope of impact.
• Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance operations.
• Collaborate with software engineering and operations to close coverage gaps.
• Mentor junior security engineers on vulnerability management best practices.
• Partner with leadership to set AVMS strategic direction and report KPIs.
• Participate in periodic on-call responsibilities for ongoing monitoring and remediation.

Skills

Vulnerability analysis

Threat detection

Automation scripting

Security engineering

Incident response

Tools

Scala

Java

Python

C/C++

Go

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Vulnerability Management Services (AVMS) team. The role focuses on discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.

You will lead detection and analysis, design automation, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership to set strategic AVMS direction, with periodic on-call responsibilities and global teamwork.