senior Security Engineer ic · Posted May 27, 2026
$178,400 – $226,700
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Security Engineer based in Virtual, United States. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Ruby, AWS. Compensation is listed at $178,400–$226,700 per year.

Role
Security Engineer
Function
security
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Virtual, United States
Department
Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
Posted
May 27, 2026

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Application deadline: Jun 1, 2026 Amazon’s STORM Red Team (SDO Threat Operations, Research Monitoring) is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our team of offensive security operators. We hack Amazon’s services, infrastructure, AI/ML systems, processes, and controls, then work with defensive and service teams to fix what we find and sharpen detection, prevention, and response capabilities across the company. STORM is a 10-person team that operates with significant autonomy. We choose our own targets, scope our own engagements, and operate across Amazon (retail, devices, entertainment, healthcare, subsidiaries, and more), partnering with the AWS Red Team when our paths overlap. Our scope is expansive and always challenging, with new business areas and attack surfaces constantly emerging across Amazon. We run multi-week adversary emulation campaigns, purple team exercises, shortest-path assessments, and targeted research efforts. The work ranges from emulating nation-state actors against critical infrastructure to testing whether a financially motivated threat group’s public playbook would work against us. We report directly into SDO security leadership and our findings regularly reach VP and SVP audiences. This is a fully remote position by design. The team is distributed and operates remotely as a core part of how we work. We’re looking for…

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