CareerPlan

Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations, Defensive Security

Seattle, Washington, United StatesFull-time$178k–$227k2026-10-19 → 2026-10-21

Core

Lead the detection, analysis, triaging, and remediation of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.

Role type

Senior IC security engineer (vulnerability management)

Builds

Automated vulnerability scanning, correlation, and prioritization capabilities

Domain

Cloud security / Infrastructure security

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Vulnerability assessment, log analysis, automation, scripting, security code review, threat modeling, risk identification, attack pattern analysis, remediation techniques

Preferred skills

Service-oriented architectures, microservices, web services security

Technologies

Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize vulnerability scanning and correlation capabilities; Investigate and triage vulnerabilities to identify severity and impact; Design and implement automation tools and workflows; Partner with engineering teams to close detection gaps; Mentor junior security engineers; Report on key performance metrics to leadership

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC