Application deadline: Jun 15, 2026
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.
AWS Marketplace within ASP is a curated digital catalog where customers find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services to build solutions and run their businesses. Every listing represents a trust relationship between AWS, an independent software vendor, and the customer - and security is what makes that trust possible.
We're looking for a Senior Security Engineer to own security for the third-party (3P) catalog. You'll set the bar for how 3P software is vetted, monitored, and protected across its lifecycle on Marketplace, and dive deep into emerging threat vectors to protect our customers. You'll also partner closely with our Application Security and Engineering teams to ensure the features we build on AWS Marketplace meet AWS's high security bar and continue to protect our customers. This role has high visibility, broad scope, and direct impact on millions of AWS customers.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the security strategy for the AWS Marketplace 3P catalog, including ingestion, scanning, vulnerability management, and ongoing posture monitoring of seller-provided artifacts (AMIs, containers, SaaS, data products, ML models).
- Identify systemic risks across the catalog and lead remediation campaigns that span multiple teams and orgs.
- Investigate and respond to security findings, vulnerabilities, and incidents involving Marketplace services and 3P content.
- Partner with AppSec to drive threat modeling, secure design reviews, and code reviews for Marketplace services.
- Define and raise security standards for sellers and Marketplace internal teams. Influence policy, tooling, and automation so the security bar rises without slowing the business down.
- Mentor engineers across the org on secure development practices, cloud security, and threat modeling.
- Represent Marketplace security in cross-AWS forums, working with AWS Security, service teams, and partner orgs.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
- Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
- Experience (non-internship) in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools
- Experience (non-internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language
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.
USA, CO, Denver - 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually
