Security Engineer III, Vulnerability Management and Response - Strategic Enablement

Description

Amazon Security's Vulnerability Management and Response - Strategic Enablement team is looking for a Security Engineer II. This team is revolutionizing vulnerability management through advanced remediation automation, innovative vulnerability detection solutions, data-driven insights, and more. Be the technical leader of a dynamic group that bridges security operations and development, creating measurable impact across Amazon's vast ecosystem.

Key job responsibilities
- Define the technical security strategy for vulnerability management automation and a homegrown vulnerability detection platform, ensuring scalable and sustainable integration of new security capabilities into Amazon’s infrastructure.

- Lead the design and development of advanced security automation, workflows, and tooling; delegate implementation details to other engineers while ensuring technical excellence and alignment with team objectives.

- Drive the creation of proof-of-concepts and production-ready solutions for vulnerability detection, assessment, and remediation across diverse environments, setting best practices for approach and execution.

- Partner with TPMs, SDEs, and cross-organizational stakeholders to translate ambiguous program requirements into robust technical designs that scale across Amazon; identify integration risks early and provide clear mitigation paths.

- Perform deep research and analysis on emerging vulnerabilities, novel exploitation techniques, and industry trends; anticipate threats and proactively evolve detection methods to address future challenges.

- Act as a technical multiplier by mentoring, coaching, and developing other security engineers, growing their ability to independently solve complex problems while instilling strong mental models for approaching security issues.

- Serve as the escalation point for complex or ambiguous issues, unblocking engineers by providing clarity, context, and principled technical direction that balances security, scale, and business needs.

A day in the life
Start your morning reviewing last night's vulnerability scan data and building SQL queries to analyze patterns across thousands of Amazon hosts. Collaborate with VMR Operations on technical specifications for a new container vulnerability detection pattern, then code Lambda scripts to integrate new capabilities with the workflow management platform. Mid-day brings a design review with SDE teams, ensuring custom detection logic scales seamlessly. Mentor a junior engineer on API integration techniques, then end the day testing your automation workflow and preparing actionable insights for tomorrow's leadership review.

About the team
The VMR Strategic Enablement team bridges security operations and development, transforming vulnerability data into measurable security outcomes. We embrace a "Think Fast, Learn Faster" culture where rapid prototyping validates new solutions and data drives every decision. Our diverse team of security engineers and TPMs collaborates across the full vulnerability lifecycle, building custom detection capabilities, operationalizing security programs, and creating metrics that demonstrate real impact across Amazon's infrastructure.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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.

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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team 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.

Training and Career Growth
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.

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Basic Qualifications

- 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
- Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
- Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

- 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.