Security Engineer, Platform Security (Firmware, Hardware, Virtualization), AWS Security
Amazon · Austin, TX · Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Cloud Security Engineer based in Austin, TX. The posting calls out experience with AWS, Serverless, DynamoDB, Linux. Compensation is listed at $159,300–$202,400 per year.
- Role
- Cloud Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Department
- Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 16, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersHelp us protect not only the Amazon Security (AmSec) cloud computing environment but all of our customers as well! Since 2006, our great team at AmSec has been enabling our customers to bring great ideas to life in ways that aren’t possible in traditional IT environments. With AmSec you can flexibly harness compute, storage, security, and other services from across the globe as your business demands them. Amazon Security is on the forefront of many security issues for a wide variety of platforms and technologies including cloud services, Internet of things (IoT), identity and access management, mobile devices, virtualization and custom hardware, all operating at massive scale. Similarly, our highly collaborative team is committed to each team member’s growth as our business grows. As a part of the Secure Hardware and Foundational Technologies group, we help Amazon launch brand new products and invest in emerging technologies securely. We are looking for a technically deep Senior Security Engineer to help secure our foundational platforms such as OS kernels, virtualization, device emulation, firmware and hardware. You will be responsible for conducting security reviews, threat modeling, developing tooling that will help detect security issues at scale and hands-on security evaluations (pen-testing). The successful…