Application Security Engineer, Amazon Application Security

Overview

In this role you will help protect Amazon’s products and services by conducting security reviews, shaping secure architectures, and modeling threats at scale. You will collaborate with internal development teams to raise security standards and deliver actionable guidance and metrics. You’ll work across cloud, devices, and services to keep customer trust at the forefront while advancing your own career in a fast-paced security culture. This is a meaningful opportunity to impact billions of users through practical, hands-on security work.

Pay / Benefits

• DEI events and learning experiences
• Training & career growth resources
• Work-life balance and flexible working culture
• Inclusive culture
• Career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Application security reviews
• Secure architecture design
• Threat modeling
• Projects and research work as needed
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams
• Security guidance documentation
• Security metrics delivery and improvements
• Assistance with recruiting activities

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language

• Prioritization
• Clear and compelling communication
• Ownership and accountability
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Threat modeling
• Secure coding

…