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Security Engineer, CS Security

Amazon

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/30/2026

Compensation

$136,000 - $184,000 per year

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.1% approval+9% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

The Security Engineer role at Amazon focuses on delivering innovative security solutions to protect customer data. The Customer Service Application Security team seeks a results-driven engineer to partner with development teams, embedding security into applications from the ideation stage. This position involves evaluating system designs for security gaps and building automated security assessments. The team values collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning to address complex security challenges.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience with web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing.
  • Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings.
  • Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain automated security guardrails and paved paths.
  • Engage early with development teams to embed security into applications.
  • Build automated, continuous security assessment capabilities.
  • Contribute code for security fixes and paved path solutions alongside developers.
  • Partner with developers to create scalable, self-service security tools.
  • Design and implement preventive and detective security controls.
  • Collaborate with security stakeholders to define and drive long-term security strategy.

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

3,290

FY2026

Approval rate

99.1%

FY2026

LCA certified

32,937

FY2026

Entry-level share

10.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+9%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-44%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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