Sr Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security

Corporate Services Security (CPSS) is the Amazon security team aligned with Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS) People eXperience & Technology (PXT) Legal and Global Communications and Community Impact (GCCI) business units.
Our Mission is to protect and safeguard Amazons corporate services systems and data. Through proactive engagement with the development teams we understand the dynamic business processes that run Amazon and enable our stakeholders to innovate build and scale securely. The Product Security Team within CPSS supports a large number of applications built using AWS Services. Apart from work we provide opportunities for our engineers to pursue projects they are passionate about while maintaining work life harmony.

Key job responsibilities
- Creating updating and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of web applications hosted on cloud
- Manual and Automated Secure Code Review primarily in Java Python and Javascript
- Development of security automation tools
- Adversarial security analysis using the latest tools to augment manual effort
- Provide Security training and outreach for internal development teams
- Provide Security architecture and design guidance to application development teams
- Independently solve systemic complex security problems that require novel methods or approaches
- Influence your teams and partners process priorities strategy and choices by using data to improve security outcomes
- Provide technical and strategic guidance to senior leaders and stakeholders through effective oral and written communications

A day in the life
As a Security Engineer you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing novel a given day you might be inspecting an applications 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.
The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically this person will be a security specialist with one or more areas of deep expertise within application security. They will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions. They will shape the strategy of the Product Security Team and influence systemic security improvements across our service organizations. They will guide and mentor other engineers on the team.

About the team
Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security

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 Amazons 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.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be 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.

Training & Career Growth

Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

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 theres nothing we cant achieve.

- 5 years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues analyzing logs or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
- 5 years of work in identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans experience
- 5 years of (non-internship) scripting programming and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala Java Python C/C or Go
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Arlington - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually