Security Engineer, Infrastructure Application Security

Join Amazon's security engineering team in Herndon, Virginia, onsite, where the focus is safeguarding the infrastructure that powers AWS data centers. This hands-on Security Engineer role supports infrastructure builders by conducting threat modeling and design reviews, while also building security automation that scales across AWS data center and infrastructure services. The position offers a salary range of USD 136,000 to 184,000 per year.

Responsibilities

• Carry out security design reviews and threat modeling for infrastructure services, identify risks, and provide actionable remediation guidance to partner teams.
• Execute manual and automated secure code reviews across infrastructure codebases.
• Offer security architecture and design guidance to builders from concept through implementation.
• Create and maintain security automation tools to scale review processes across the infrastructure portfolio.
• Document findings, track remediation progress, and verify fixes in collaboration with partner teams.
• Provide security training and outreach to internal infrastructure development teams.
• Identify high-severity security issues and escalate them through appropriate channels in line with launch timelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and exploit development, or equivalent experience.
• Direct, non-internship experience with web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation.
• Experience solving straightforward problems by writing code or scripts, with some guidance.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques, or equivalent.

Technologies

• Python
• Perl
• Bash
• PowerShell
• AWS

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental Health Support
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• Sign-on payments
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)