In Amazon Stores, we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From amazon.com 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 globe's largest AWS deployment.

As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. On a given day, you might be inspecting an application's 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 expertise. In their communication, they will articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Interpersonally, the successful candidate will harmonize disparate opinions while prioritizing risks to guide their partners toward secure solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects
• Conducting first-party application security research
• Performing manual and automated secure code review, primarily in Java, Python, and JavaScript
• Identifying and mitigating security issues at scale
• Developing security automation tools
• Performing adversarial security analysis using innovative tools to augment manual effort
• Providing security guidance and working with internal software development teams to secure their applications
• Independently solving security problems that require novel methods or approaches
• Influencing your team's and partners' processes, 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, 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.

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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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.

Mentorship and 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.

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