# Senior Security Engineer, AWS Security

Come and build innovative services that protect our cloud from security threats. As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure. You’ll work with data scientists, software development engineers, and security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and preserves our customers’ trust in us. You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats - not many teams can say that! Key job responsibilities - Research, identify, and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation. - Develop detection prototypes for these security problems to enhance our detection capabilities. - Identify opportunities to prevent security issues at scale. - Mentor and develop teammates both technically and professionally. - Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technology to research, identify, and mitigate complex risks. About the tea

- **Id**: 3672908
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-senior-security-engineer-aws-security-3>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Annapolis Junction, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T21:59:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5324
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Logistics & Warehouse Robotics, Video Production, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4612
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.888
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 178400
- **Max**: 226700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 226700

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: yes
- **IAM** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T09:51:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 226700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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