Security Engineer, Amazon

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++

Desirable

• As an AppSec engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services
• In a given day, you might be inspecting an application’s code for security issues, building a new framework 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
• In their communication, they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike
• Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions
• Amazon develops products and services that transform the way customers live
• Across teams and geographies, we strive to delight customers and earn their trust
• Members of the Stores Security team are guardians of that trust
• From drones to grocery stores and everything in between, our mission is to assess risk, classify data and systems, detect potential intrusion, and respond quickly to security events across Amazon’s critical business functions, including Retail, Customer Service, Worldwide Operations, Consumer Payments, Physical Stores, and Healthcare
• We collaborate with business teams across Amazon to build security best practices into their mechanisms
• Together, we are building (and securing) the future, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time
• The scope and scale of what Amazon does to delight customers challenges all Amazonians to be resourceful, invent and simplify, meet high standards, and embrace change
• 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 cutting-edge tools to augment manual effort
• Security training and outreach for internal development teams
• Security architecture and design guidance
• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
• Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes