Security Engineer III - AMZ11027.12

Amazon

Amazon

Seattle, WA, USA
USD 179,234-226,700 / year
Posted on Nov 26, 2025

Description

Employer: Amazon.com Services LLC
Position: Security Engineer III (multiple positions available)
Location: Seattle, WA

Multiple Positions Available:

1. Analyze network and host activity on incident response situations, leveraging best practices tools and creation of custom tool sets and scripts. Coordinate critical and sensitive incident response engagements spanning multiple geographies.
2. Conduct briefings on the outcome of threat hunting and incident response operations to a broad spectrum of audiences, ranging from technical teams to executive management. Conduct Threat Hunting operations, and assess the risk on findings, using known adversary TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures). Coordinate critical and sensitive cyber threat hunting engagements spanning multiple geographies.
3. Work with partner organizations within Amazon to help integrate security at all levels of their projects.
4. Conduct Incident response and Forensics analysis on AWS resources, including but not limited to EC2 instances, given a "known-good" baseline. Be involved in hands-on security assessments, where one will develop and provide guidance, and advocate security engineering best practices.
5. Analyze the security of applications and services following Amazon’s security processes and policies, and provide guidance on technologies, discovering and addressing security issues and quickly reacting new threat scenarios.
6. Participate in and perform security audits, risk analysis, vulnerability testing and security reviews across all elements of projects and software systems.
7. Detect anomalies in large unstructured data sets, synthesize data and reports from different sources, make logical inferences about such data and publish results.
8. Design and develop tools and scripts to aid in data processing or other aspects of a security investigation.
9. Provide security architecture and solve security challenges at scale and work to help create solutions while developing strong security culture and practices.
10. Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies.
11. Working alongside and mentoring Information Security engineers to improve security, reduce and quickly address risk.
(40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $179,234.00 - $226,700.00/year.

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation