Senior Security Engineer, Amazon

• A successful candidate must be one that can handle several difficult challenges and problems, can make risk-based assessments founded on data and facts rather than older static based security paradigms, though being aware of the older best practices
• Experience delivering large cross-functional security efforts, resulting in significant security improvements within highly complex systems
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate clearly and effectively with developers, product managers, and senior business leaders with security metrics to influence decisions
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
• Experience in three of the following areas: edge and delivery security (DDoS, CDNs, etc.), mobile applications, device security, threat modeling, authentication, web and network protocols, data structures and algorithms, application security, code reviews, software development, penetration tests, or vulnerability assessments

Desirable

• As a successful Sr Security Engineer within Global Media and Entertainment Security, you will be seen as a leader and play a key role in ensuring security is built into our applications and services and partnering with development teams to maintain a high security bar
• You will collaborate with security champions within our engineering teams to drive the implementation and validation of security controls prior to production launch
• Participate in and support application security reviews that include threat modeling, code review, and security testing
• Provide durable, technical security guidance to mitigate identified risks
• Review existing processes and suggest improvements for increased security and efficiency
• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
• Mentor and guide security champions embedded throughout the engineering team
• As a successful Sr Security Engineer within Global Media and Entertainment Security, you will be seen as a strong leader who prioritizes well, communicates clearly and compellingly understands how to drive a high level of operational and strategic excellence within a team, while collaborating with a variety of internal and external business partners
• You must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short- versus long-term security and business goals