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Security Engineer I, AWS Security Incident Response

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $136,000–$184,000🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-25

Core

Investigate suspicious activity, drive security response efforts, and communicate technical findings to enhance secure outcomes for AWS customers.

Role type

Security Engineer I (Incident Response)

Builds

AI-augmented investigation tools, forensic capabilities, and security automation

Domain

Cloud Security / AWS

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis | client delivery

Required skills

web protocols, common security attacks, remediation techniques, system security vulnerabilities, penetration testing, exploit development, scripting

Preferred skills

AWS services in security context, AI/ML system concepts, detection engineering, security automation

Technologies

Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Security Hub, AWS IAM, CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz Defend

Responsibilities

Respond to threat findings and perform triage, identify and evaluate security threats and vulnerabilities, contribute to security automation and tooling, track effectiveness of detective controls, develop and refine runbooks and policies

Seniority

Junior, hands-on IC

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