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

Amazon Security is seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Security Engineer to join our Amazon Vulnerability Management Services (AVMS) team. The AVMS team is responsible for discovering assessing triaging detecting and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.

If youre excited about the opportunity to make a significant impact on the security of one of the worlds largest and most complex technology ecosystems wed love to hear from you!

Key job responsibilities
- Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazons infrastructure services and applications.
- Lead the detection and analysis of vulnerabilities through the development and optimization of vulnerability scanning correlation and prioritization capabilities.
- Thoroughly investigate and triage vulnerabilities identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.
- Design and implement automation tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
- Partner with software engineering and operations teams to identify and increase coverage and detection capability gaps across Amazon.
- Mentor and train junior security engineers sharing your expertise in vulnerability management best practices.
- Collaborate with information security leadership to set the strategic direction for the AVMS program and report on key performance metrics.
- Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.


About the team
Why Amazon Security
At Amazon security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazons products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud devices retail entertainment healthcare operations and physical stores.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.

Mentorship and Career growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 4 years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues analyzing logs or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
- 5 years of work in identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans experience
- 4 years of (non-internship) scripting programming and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala Java Python C/C or Go
- Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification attack patterns and remediation techniques

- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually