Security Engineer, Amazon

• Efficient time management skills are required along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty
• The successful candidate must be one that can handle several difficult challenges and problems, can make risk-based assessments founded on data and facts
• BS in Computer Science, Information Security, 2+ years of demonstrated experience in areas such as application security, offensive security and/or systems security
• Experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Python, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience working within highly regulated environments

Desirable

• As Security Engineer, your responsibility is to ensure the data, devices, and systems are secure, resilient, and compliant.
• Your teammates are a global team of security engineers, software developers, and technical program managers dedicated to continuously raising the security bar.
• A Security Engineer in Amazon will be strong in multiple security domains and sought out for advice on technical issues.
• Engineers in this role must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals.
• They must also demonstrate resilience and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact
• 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
• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
• Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes