Security Engineer, Amazon
Amazon Security, Protective Services
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- A successful candidate will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills
- Bachelor (undergraduate) degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Software Engineer, Security, or others) OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Minimum of 2 years of professional experience with any combination of at least 2 technical disciplines, including the following: cloud security, network security, application security, mobile security, secure development methodologies, software development and coding, identity management, authentication and authorization, and systems engineering
Desirable
- Professional experience building or reviewing threat models
- Professional experience conducting security assessments, including penetration testing
- Ability to lead through influence within a secure development life-cycle for multiple products and technologies, meeting customer expectations for security
- Experience implementing security solutions that resolve security and business risk trade-offs
- An understanding of communication protocols and data formats (such as TLS, HTTP(S), JSON, XML, Web Sockets)
- An understanding of Identity and authorization provider technologies (OAuth, SAML, OIDC, Identity Federation)
- An understanding of cryptography, web service frameworks, mobile application architectures, and service architectures (such as event-driven, service-oriented, or serverless architectures)
- Experience with one or more scripting or programming languages (such as Python, Java, C++) for the purpose of code review
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage directly with senior leadership
- Ability to discover and communicate deep technical issues in terms of business risk with non-experts and senior leaders
- Strong bias for action balanced with a strong ability to dive deep into problems
- Strong ownership, urgency, and drive
- Strong analytical abilities and design skills
What the job involves
- AWS Security is looking for a Security Engineer to design security controls and help validate that our services, applications, and emerging technologies are designed and implemented to the highest security standards
- You will be engaging with teams creating exciting new technologies, requiring highly customized security judgment outside of existing IT and security structures
- You will be responsible for analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering and addressing security issues, building security automation, and decisively taking action to remediate emerging threats throughout a full secure development life-cycle (SDLC)
- Security engineers at AWS have an opportunity to experiment, learn, build tools, and work with teams building new technology and services at massive scale
- As a security engineer at Amazon, you are expected to have technical expertise in multiple domains and provide significant contributions to the AWS Security team and to multiple groups throughout Amazon
- Security engineers are expected to develop elegant solutions to complex security risk problems and apply appropriate technologies while following security engineering best practices
- As a security engineer at Amazon, you are expected to demonstrate strong Amazon leadership principles
- This role requires the ability to foster constructive dialogue and seek resolution when confronted with differing opinions on security risks
- Engineers in this role are expected to participate fully in the planning of the AWS Security team's work and constantly seek opportunities for process improvem
- Shaping new services through security review of design, architecture, and implementation
- Secure development life-cycle (SDLC) practices including threat modeling and security testing
- Strongly influence decision-makers and stakeholders to achieve a consistently high security bar for new services
- Scope and assist in penetration testing engagements for services that will operate at cloud-scale
- Create security guidance and documentation for team and customers
- Develop security tools and automation
- Develop and deliver security training and outreach to internal development teams
- Lead security projects (including security reviews, tool development, and creation of new security practices) with end-to-end ownership across AWS and Amazon initiatives
- Support for mentoring, team building and recruiting activities in a company where security is a critical priority
- Opportunities to communicate security findings to senior leadership across the company
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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