Security Engineer II, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
mid
Security Engineer
ic
· Posted Apr 17, 2026
$159,300 – $202,400
USD per year
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Ruby, Swift. Compensation is listed at $159,300–$202,400 per year.
- Role
- Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 17, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersEmbark on a Mission to Fortify Amazon's Defenses as a Security Engineer II with the Vulnerability Management & Remediation Operations team!
Amazon Security is seeking an experienced and innovative Security Engineer to join our Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMRO) team in Seattle, Washington. The VMRO team is responsible for discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.
Key job responsibilities
- Analyse public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code.
- Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.
- Investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.
- Support response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix their security issues in a timely manner.
- Engineer high quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms.
- Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
- Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.
Amazon Security is seeking an experienced and innovative Security Engineer to join our Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMRO) team in Seattle, Washington. The VMRO team is responsible for discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.
Key job responsibilities
- Analyse public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code.
- Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.
- Investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.
- Support response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix their security issues in a timely manner.
- Engineer high quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms.
- Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
- Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.
Basic Qualifications
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