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Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.\nMentorship and Career growth\nWe’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.\nBasic qualifications\n- 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience\n- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience\n- 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience\n- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go\n- Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques\nPreferred qualifications\n- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent\n- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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