Description
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.
As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. Your day may involve inspecting application code for security issues, building new frameworks to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine‑tuning the design for a new service alongside its software developers.
The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise. They will clearly articulate risks to technical and non‑technical audiences alike. Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while prioritizing risks to guide partners toward secure solutions.
Key Job Responsibilities
* Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
* Manual and automated secure code review, primarily in Java, Python, and JavaScript.
* Development of security automation tools.
* Adversarial security analysis using tools to augment manual effort.
* Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
* Security architecture and design guidance.
* Independently solving security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
* Influencing your team’s and partners’ processes, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes.
About The Team
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed, we encourage you 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.
In Amazon Security, we learn and remain 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.
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.
We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Basic Qualifications
* Experience with threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security.
* Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
* Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++.
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
* Information security professional certification.
* Experience with AWS products and services.
* Knowledge of penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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