About this role

Amazon is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in Sydney, Australia. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Ruby, Swift and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role: Security Engineer
Function: security
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Sydney, Australia
Experience: 5+ years
Education: Bachelor's degree
Department: Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
Posted: Jul 9, 2026

AI Summary

Analyze vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure and services, triaging severity and impact. Design detection mechanisms and automation tools to enhance remediation operations. Requires 5 years security engineering experience in system/network/application security with Python or Java, plus 5 years improving vulnerability detection accuracy.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Embark on a Mission to Fortify Amazon's Defenses as a Security Engineer 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 Sydney, Australia. 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

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- 5 years security engineering experience in system, network, and/or application security and developing vulnerability assessment tests with Python or Java.
- 5 years experience improving accuracy of vulnerability detection mechanisms across a diverse technical ecosystem.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
- 5+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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