senior Security Engineer ic · Posted Mar 16, 2026
$178,400 – $226,700
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Security Engineer based in Herndon, VA. The posting calls out experience with Python, SQL, AWS, Linux. Compensation is listed at $178,400–$226,700 per year.

Role
Security Engineer
Function
security
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Herndon, VA
Department
Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
Posted
Mar 16, 2026
AI Summary
Senior Security Intelligence Engineer analyzes cyber threats and malicious artifacts to generate actionable intelligence for Amazon's incident response and detection teams. Develops threat intelligence products, discovers new threats from large datasets, and creates automation techniques. Requires deep understanding of cyber threat actors and question-driven analysis experience.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

The Threat Intelligence for Global Enterprise Response (TIGER) team, part of Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI), is responsible for developing actionable intelligence on advanced cyber threats to Amazon employees and company assets. We obtain indicators and other intelligence from a variety of internal and external sources and use that information to develop an understanding of sophisticated actors and their tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Our intelligence supports incident response teams, red teams, detections teams and teams working to prevent financial loss to the company. We leverage that understanding to proactively identify and mitigate malicious activity. The successful candidate will analyze both attributed and unattributed actor TTPs to generate intelligence and insights into current threats. A deep understanding of current cyber threat actors as well as experience performing question-driven analysis is required. As a Senior Security Intelligence Engineer, you will help enhance our capabilities by identifying new data sources, formulating new analytic techniques, and working across teams to drive their supporting capabilities. You will likewise work to harness expansive data sets and generate actionable and unique insights from them using database querying and statistical analysis. Your efforts will uncover previously-unknown threats and help drive innovation and continual improvement in the "state-of-the-art"…

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