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 Amazon’s 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.
As a Security Engineer, you will work closely with software development teams to help design, build, and review secure services. You will support efforts such as identifying security issues in code and architecture, implementing security tooling, and contributing to frameworks that enable secure software development at scale.
This role is ideal for someone with strong technical fundamentals in application security and a desire to grow their expertise across security domains. You should be comfortable diving deep into technical problems, collaborating with engineers across teams, and applying your knowledge to real-world security challenges. You will be encouraged to continuously learn and develop your skills.
Key job responsibilities
- 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.
- Assist in building and maintaining security automation tools to improve coverage and reduce manual efforts.
- Adversarial security analysis through tooling and manual techniques to identify vulnerabilities.
- Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
- Security architecture and design guidance.
- Investigate and help resolve security issues, proposing creative solutions where standard approaches may not apply.
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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t 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 Amazon’s 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, it’s 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
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll 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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or equivalent years of engineering experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Information security professional certifications
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Have experience building and securing complex AWS architecture.
