Software Engineer - AWS Fleet Vulnerability Remediation

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Security in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the Vulnerability Management org. You will build and operate systems that identify and remediate vulnerabilities across the AWS host fleet, working with service teams to reduce the attack surface at scale.

You will prototype ideas against fleet data, push successful concepts to production, and participate in on-call when needed. The role emphasizes security engineering and large-scale data processing.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Build the systems that determine why vulnerabilities persist across the AWS host fleet and drive them to remediation automatically.
• Build detection that identifies where patching automation is not reaching hosts, and route what it finds to the owning team.
• Prototype fast against fleet-scale security data, then take what works to production and own it there, including on-call.
• Partner with AWS service teams and security platform teams to reduce the attack surface across the fleet.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming language

Tools

Spark

EMR

Glue

Iceberg

Athena

Redshift

Job description

Amazon Security in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the Vulnerability Management org. You will build and operate systems that identify and remediate vulnerabilities across the AWS host fleet, working with service teams to reduce the attack surface at scale.

You will prototype ideas against fleet data, push successful concepts to production, and participate in on-call when needed. The role emphasizes security engineering and large-scale data processing.