Security Engineer, Stores Application Security

In Amazon Stores we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From to world class machine learning pipelines from Innovative digital healthcare to no-checkout retail we push the boundaries of technology in every direction using the globes largest AWS deployment.

As an AppSec engineer you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these 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 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 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.

Our organization prizes its employees and we show it through investing in work-life harmony. We have dedicated resources that consistently innovate in reducing on-call time and ensuring the team spend their time on the highest-value tasks. Join the stores AppSec organization to work hard have fun and make history!


Key job responsibilities
- Creating updating and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects
- First party application security research
- Manual and Automated Secure Code Review primarily in Java Python and Javascript
- Identifying and mitigating security issues at scale
- Development of security automation tools
- Adversarial security analysis using innovative tools to augment manual effort
- Security guidance and working with internal software development teams on securing their applications
- Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
- Influence your teams and partners process priorities and choices to improve outcomes

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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.

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.

Mentorship and 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.

#Joinstoresappsec

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security 1 years of demonstrated experience of comprehensive application security assessments including both automated and manual assessment.
- Experience in threat modelling architecture review manual source code review attacker exploit techniques and methods for their remediation.
- Experience programming or scripting in Python Ruby Go Swift C or similar object oriented language

- Experience in any combination of the following: threat modeling experience secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography and security research.
- You have experience with AWS services or network architecture and enterprise IT systems
- Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) such as security design review threat modeling secure code review and security testing
- Experience building scalable solutions for application security challenges

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