Senior Security Engineer, AWS Vulnerability Management, AWS Vulnerability Management - Host OS and Third Party Software
for section headings (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)
2. Use - for lists of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose
3. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading
4. Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it
5. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail
6. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions
7. Include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text
8. Never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them
9. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones
10. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences
Let me analyze the job posting content:
The posting has:
- Description/About the role (first paragraph)
- Key job responsibilities (list)
- A day in the life (prose)
- About The Team (prose)
- Diverse Experiences (prose)
- Why Amazon Security? (prose)
- Inclusive Team Culture (prose)
- Training & Career Growth (prose)
- Work/Life Balance (prose)
- Basic Qualifications (list)
- Preferred Qualifications (list)
- Pay information (salary ranges for locations)
- Benefits information (comprehensive benefits listed)
- Company and Job ID (metadata)
I need to structure this into appropriate sections. Let me map:
- "About the role" - could combine the initial description and "About The Team" and "A day in the life"
- "Responsibilities" - Key job responsibilities
- "Requirements" or "Qualifications" - Basic Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications
- "Benefits" - the benefits section
- "Pay" - the salary ranges
- Maybe "Culture" or "Team" for the culture-related sections
But the rules say: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So I should use those standard headings where appropriate.
I should not create sections for filler. The culture sections (Diverse Experiences, Why Amazon Security, Inclusive Team Culture, Training & Career Growth, Work/Life Balance) are somewhat boilerplate but they do have specific content. However, they might be considered "boilerplate" to remove? The instruction says "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The culture sections are not exactly EEO boilerplate; they are part of the job description. But they are somewhat generic. However, the instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information". I think I should include them but maybe combine into a "Culture & Benefits" section or similar. But the allowed headings are specific: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. I could use "About the role" for the initial description and team info, "Responsibilities" for key job responsibilities, "Qualifications" for basic and preferred qualifications, "Benefits" for benefits, "Pay" for salary. The culture sections could be folded into "About the role" or a separate "Culture" but not in the allowed list. The allowed list is examples, not exhaustive? It says "e.g." so maybe I can use other headings. But the rule: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those. I'll stick to those.
I'll create:
- About the role
with the initial description, "A day in the life", "About The Team", and maybe the culture paragraphs combined.
- Responsibilities
with the key job responsibilities list.
- Qualifications
with Basic and Preferred qualifications.
- Benefits
with the benefits list.
- Pay
with the salary ranges.
I'll include the company and job ID as a short
at the end or beginning? The rule: "fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." I'll include a
with company and job ID.
Now, I need to output only HTML fragment.
Let me write the HTML.
First, About the role: I'll include the first paragraph (description), then "A day in the life" as a sub-section? But I should use
for prose. I'll combine them into a few paragraphs.
I'll structure:
About the role
Do you want to build security solutions in third party software and software supply chain that have not been built anywhere at this scale? Amazon is hiring for our Third Party Software and Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Management team. You will put your offensive security background to work — penetration testing, exploit development, or threat intelligence — to find the attack paths an adversary would take through our vendors and package registries, and to decide which risks we close first. This is a role where the hardest problems are not yet defined, and defining them is the job. You will own outcomes, not tickets. You will set the security bar for the top CI/CD toolchains at Amazon, drive mitigation of supply chain incidents at machine speed, and build the defense against a SolarWinds-class vendor compromise before it happens. You will set the security requirements and hand validated designs to software development engineers to build at scale, so your judgment sets the direction for a team. You will also help build our offensive security capability from the ground up and mentor the security engineers around you. If you want to own hard, ambiguous security problems with Amazon-wide impact and grow the team that solves them, this role is for you.
A day in the life: A suspicious package lands in the curated registry and something about it looks wrong. You pull the threat intelligence, trace what it touches, and make the call thousands of builders are waiting on: block it, or let it through. By the time your coffee is cold, you've either stopped a supply chain compromise or cleared a false alarm. Later you're working with an AWS engineering team that wants to wire a new toolchain into their pipeline. You've already mapped how an attacker would abuse it, so you set the security bar the integration has to clear. They build to your spec, not the other way around. In the afternoon you throw a simulated supply chain attack at the detection-to-block automation, find the gap it misses, prove it, and hand a validated design to an SDE to close it.
About the team: Our team owns Third Party Software and Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Management for Amazon, building mitigations at a scale that has not been done before. We partner with AWS engineering teams across the company, working directly with their architectures to prioritize and reduce security risk. You will have visibility to VPs and Distinguished Engineers in AWS and Amazon Security, and the problems you solve here protect not just AWS but all of Amazon. We value an inclusive culture where pragmatic security solutions are the norm and every engineer has the opportunity to make an outsized impact.
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.
But that's a lot of prose. Might be okay.
Responsibilities: Key job responsibilities list.
Responsibilities
- Hunt for the attack paths an adversary would take through Amazon's third party software packages and supply chain components, using penetration testing and threat intelligence to decide which risks we close first.
- Define and enforce the security bar for Amazon's curated package registry and top CI/CD toolchains, close the riskiest bypass paths, and hand validated designs to software development engineers to implement.
- Build and test detection-to-block automation that mitigates supply chain incidents within minutes, and lead rapid response for zero-day vulnerabilities in internet-facing third party appliances.
- Raise the security bar across code repositories through architecture review, code review, and reusable frameworks that engineering teams can pick up with minimal effort.
- Mentor security engineers and shape a culture of fast, pragmatic solutions while communicating risk assessments and design decisions to technical peers and senior leadership.
Qualifications: Basic and Preferred.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
- 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred qualifications
- 3+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
Benefits: The benefits paragraph lists many items. I'll make a list.
Benefits
- 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
for prose 3. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading 4. Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it 5. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail 6. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions 7. Include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text 8. Never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them 9. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones 10. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences Let me analyze the job posting content: The posting has: - Description/About the role (first paragraph) - Key job responsibilities (list) - A day in the life (prose) - About The Team (prose) - Diverse Experiences (prose) - Why Amazon Security? (prose) - Inclusive Team Culture (prose) - Training & Career Growth (prose) - Work/Life Balance (prose) - Basic Qualifications (list) - Preferred Qualifications (list) - Pay information (salary ranges for locations) - Benefits information (comprehensive benefits listed) - Company and Job ID (metadata) I need to structure this into appropriate sections. Let me map: - "About the role" - could combine the initial description and "About The Team" and "A day in the life" - "Responsibilities" - Key job responsibilities - "Requirements" or "Qualifications" - Basic Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications - "Benefits" - the benefits section - "Pay" - the salary ranges - Maybe "Culture" or "Team" for the culture-related sections But the rules say: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So I should use those standard headings where appropriate.
I should not create sections for filler. The culture sections (Diverse Experiences, Why Amazon Security, Inclusive Team Culture, Training & Career Growth, Work/Life Balance) are somewhat boilerplate but they do have specific content. However, they might be considered "boilerplate" to remove? The instruction says "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The culture sections are not exactly EEO boilerplate; they are part of the job description. But they are somewhat generic. However, the instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information". I think I should include them but maybe combine into a "Culture & Benefits" section or similar. But the allowed headings are specific: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. I could use "About the role" for the initial description and team info, "Responsibilities" for key job responsibilities, "Qualifications" for basic and preferred qualifications, "Benefits" for benefits, "Pay" for salary. The culture sections could be folded into "About the role" or a separate "Culture" but not in the allowed list. The allowed list is examples, not exhaustive? It says "e.g." so maybe I can use other headings. But the rule: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those. I'll stick to those.
I'll create:
- About the role
with the initial description, "A day in the life", "About The Team", and maybe the culture paragraphs combined.
- Responsibilities
with the key job responsibilities list.
- Qualifications
with Basic and Preferred qualifications.
- Benefits
with the benefits list.
- Pay
with the salary ranges.
I'll include the company and job ID as a short
About the role
with the initial description, "A day in the life", "About The Team", and maybe the culture paragraphs combined. -Responsibilities
with the key job responsibilities list. -Qualifications
with Basic and Preferred qualifications. -Benefits
with the benefits list. -Pay
with the salary ranges. I'll include the company and job ID as a shortat the end or beginning? The rule: "fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." I'll include a
with company and job ID. Now, I need to output only HTML fragment. Let me write the HTML. First, About the role: I'll include the first paragraph (description), then "A day in the life" as a sub-section? But I should use
for prose. I'll combine them into a few paragraphs. I'll structure:
About the role
Do you want to build security solutions in third party software and software supply chain that have not been built anywhere at this scale? Amazon is hiring for our Third Party Software and Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Management team. You will put your offensive security background to work — penetration testing, exploit development, or threat intelligence — to find the attack paths an adversary would take through our vendors and package registries, and to decide which risks we close first. This is a role where the hardest problems are not yet defined, and defining them is the job. You will own outcomes, not tickets. You will set the security bar for the top CI/CD toolchains at Amazon, drive mitigation of supply chain incidents at machine speed, and build the defense against a SolarWinds-class vendor compromise before it happens. You will set the security requirements and hand validated designs to software development engineers to build at scale, so your judgment sets the direction for a team. You will also help build our offensive security capability from the ground up and mentor the security engineers around you. If you want to own hard, ambiguous security problems with Amazon-wide impact and grow the team that solves them, this role is for you.
A day in the life: A suspicious package lands in the curated registry and something about it looks wrong. You pull the threat intelligence, trace what it touches, and make the call thousands of builders are waiting on: block it, or let it through. By the time your coffee is cold, you've either stopped a supply chain compromise or cleared a false alarm. Later you're working with an AWS engineering team that wants to wire a new toolchain into their pipeline. You've already mapped how an attacker would abuse it, so you set the security bar the integration has to clear. They build to your spec, not the other way around. In the afternoon you throw a simulated supply chain attack at the detection-to-block automation, find the gap it misses, prove it, and hand a validated design to an SDE to close it.
About the team: Our team owns Third Party Software and Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Management for Amazon, building mitigations at a scale that has not been done before. We partner with AWS engineering teams across the company, working directly with their architectures to prioritize and reduce security risk. You will have visibility to VPs and Distinguished Engineers in AWS and Amazon Security, and the problems you solve here protect not just AWS but all of Amazon. We value an inclusive culture where pragmatic security solutions are the norm and every engineer has the opportunity to make an outsized impact.
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.
But that's a lot of prose. Might be okay. Responsibilities: Key job responsibilities list.Responsibilities
- Hunt for the attack paths an adversary would take through Amazon's third party software packages and supply chain components, using penetration testing and threat intelligence to decide which risks we close first.
- Define and enforce the security bar for Amazon's curated package registry and top CI/CD toolchains, close the riskiest bypass paths, and hand validated designs to software development engineers to implement.
- Build and test detection-to-block automation that mitigates supply chain incidents within minutes, and lead rapid response for zero-day vulnerabilities in internet-facing third party appliances.
- Raise the security bar across code repositories through architecture review, code review, and reusable frameworks that engineering teams can pick up with minimal effort.
- Mentor security engineers and shape a culture of fast, pragmatic solutions while communicating risk assessments and design decisions to technical peers and senior leadership.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
- 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred qualifications
- 3+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
Benefits
- 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