# Application Security Engineer, Proactive Security

The Application Security (AppSec) Security Engineer is responsible for conducting security assessments and reviews of applications and services to identify vulnerabilities and ensure adherence to security standards. This role works under the guidance of senior engineers to evaluate system designs, perform threat modeling, and validate that services meet the organization's security bar before launch. Key job responsibilities - Security Reviews: Conduct security design reviews for new and existing services, evaluating architecture documents, threat models, and system designs for potential security risks - Threat Modeling: Perform threat modeling exercises to identify attack vectors, security weaknesses, and areas of concern in application architectures - Penetration Testing: Execute or coordinate penetration testing activities to validate security controls and identify exploitable vulnerabilities - Finding Management: Document, track, and communicate security findings to service teams, providing clear remediation guidance and verifying fixes - Security Guidance: Provide security consultation to development teams on secure coding practices, authentication/authorization mechanisms, cry

- **Id**: 4199619
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-application-security-engineer-proactive-security-2>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T21:42:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T21:42:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5360
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Application Security, Advertising, Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4651
- **Ghost share**: 0.001
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 136000
- **Max**: 184000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 184000

## Technologies

- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T21:42:51Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T23:03:28Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 184000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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