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

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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.

• Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's 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.

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 Amazon’s 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.

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.

In Amazon Security, it’s 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.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll 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…