Security Engineer II, Stores Application Security

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 an AppSec engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. In 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 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!

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.

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 team’s 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, 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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Basic qualifications

- 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

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, 3+ years of demonstrated experience of comprehensive application security assessments, including both automated and manual assessment.

- Have good understanding of network architecture, enterprise IT systems and cloud such as AWS.

- Proficiency in programming or scripting languages (e.g., Java, Python, Perl, Bash, Ruby, PowerShell, etc.).

- Ability to explain complex technical risks in simple, clear language so that non-technical stakeholders can easily understand and take appropriate action.

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: threat modeling, secure coding, identity and access management (IAM) and authentication, software development, cryptography, or security research.

- Strong experience with AWS services, network architecture, and enterprise IT systems.

- Hands-on experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including security design reviews, threat modeling, secure code reviews, and security testing.

- Experience driving continuous and scalable improvements in security controls and practices, and collaborating with security stakeholders to develop and implement security strategies.

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