Software Development Engineer II, AWS Vulnerability Management

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the AWS Vulnerability

Management organization. Our organization is accountable for the end to end

vulnerability lifecycle across all of AWS. Within the organization, our team

owns host operating system vulnerability management, and our job is to mitigate

the highest security risks at machine speed and at the lowest cost to AWS. We

find the hardest security problems in our fleet, build prototypes, iterate fast,

and reduce the attack surface so vulnerabilities never reach production hosts.

Working with some of the largest services at AWS like EC2, S3, RDS, SageMaker,

and Amazon Linux means diving deep into operating systems, fleet automation, and

security data at AWS scale.

The successful candidate is one who turns a hard security problem into a service

that solves it fleet wide. You will build the systems that determine why

vulnerabilities persist across millions of hosts, predict which ones will become

critical before they do, and drive remediation without a human in the loop,

moving mean time to remediate down and cutting the engineering hours AWS spends

on patching. You will work directly with AWS service teams and partner security

teams, prototype fast, and take what works from prototype to production. You

will set the engineering practice for a growing team and own what gets built.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA

Key job responsibilities

Build the systems that determine why vulnerabilities persist across the AWS host

fleet and drive them to remediation automatically.

Build detection that identifies where patching automation is not reaching hosts,

and route what it finds to the owning team.

Prototype fast against fleet-scale security data, then take what works to

production and own it there, including on-call.

Partner with AWS service teams and security platform teams to reduce the attack

surface across the fleet.

A day in the life

You will spend your days building and operating the systems that find and

eliminate the causes of vulnerabilities across the AWS host fleet, at a scale

where every decision has to be right the first time. You will prototype an idea,

prove it against real fleet data, and take the ones that work into production.

You will work directly with AWS service teams to turn what you find into

remediation they can act on immediately. The team is security engineers with

deep fleet expertise, a technical program manager, and a support engineer, and

the engineering team is growing.

About the team

Our team owns host operating system vulnerability management for AWS. We find

the hardest problems keeping vulnerabilities alive in the fleet, build the

services that eliminate them, and work directly with the AWS service teams who

run that fleet. You will build security services that protect AWS from real

adversaries, at a scale where the solution has to be automatic. The engineering

team is growing and the scope grows with it.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the

qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates

to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path,

or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering

delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating

and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and

services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate

their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas

including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and

physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI

events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace

our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we

seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s

Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and

other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded

professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the

expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements

are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,

there’s nothing we can’t achieve. Basic

Qualifications

• - 3+ years of
• non-internship professional software development experience
• - 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns,
• reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• - 3+ years of full software development life cycle,
• including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build
• processes, testing, and operations experience
• - Experience designing and owning a system consumed by other teams, including
• its data model and interface contract
• - Experience operating what you build in production, including on-call,
• alarming, and operational metrics
• - Experience building production data-intensive systems with distributed
• processing frameworks such as Spark, EMR, or Glue
• - Experience with data lakes or warehouse services such as Iceberg, Athena,
• Redshift, or equivalent, and strong SQL skills against large datasets
• - Experience taking a prototype to a production service
• - Interest in or exposure to security engineering, vulnerability management, or
• large-scale fleet operations
• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
• of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
• Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
• customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
• adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
• interview or onboarding process, please visit
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• information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please
• contact your Recruiting Partner.
• The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package
• will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final
• compensation will be determined based on factors including experience,
• qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits
• including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &
• AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health
• Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
• Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
• Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
• [https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits].
• USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually