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Senior Security Engineer, AWS Security

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $178,400–$178,400🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and manage automated services to detect and mitigate cybersecurity threats across Amazon's massive cloud infrastructure.

Role type

Senior Security Engineer (Detection & Automation)

Builds

Automated threat detection and mitigation services for AWS

Domain

Cloud Security / Cybersecurity

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Security vulnerability identification, attack pattern analysis, remediation techniques, log analysis, system troubleshooting, automation, scripting, programming, security code review

Preferred skills

Service-oriented architectures, microservices, web services, AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS), big data technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR), native cloud telemetry (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, VPCFlow, R53 Resolver Logs)

Technologies

AWS, Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, VPCFlow, R53 Resolver

Responsibilities

Research and prioritize security problems detectable via automation, develop detection prototypes, identify opportunities to prevent security issues at scale, mentor teammates, advocate for new technologies to mitigate complex risks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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