Application Security Engineer
2 weeks ago
AWS Security is looking for a Security Engineer to design security controls and help validate that our services, applications, and emerging technologies are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be engaging with teams creating exciting new technologies, requiring highly customized security judgment outside of existing IT and security structures. You will be responsible for analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering and addressing security issues, building security automation, and decisively taking action to remediate emerging threats throughout a full secure development life-cycle (SDLC).
This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your work. Security engineers at AWS have an opportunity to experiment, learn, build tools, and work with teams building new technology and services at massive scale. Security engineers at all levels have the opportunity to learn from and be mentored by those who are building and securing our cutting-edge services. A security engineer is also expected to be a mentor for others and be a trusted security advisor within the organization.
As a security engineer at Amazon, you are expected to have technical expertise in multiple domains and provide significant contributions to the AWS Security team and to multiple groups throughout Amazon. Security engineers are expected to develop elegant solutions to complex security risk problems and apply appropriate technologies while following security engineering best practices.
As a security engineer at Amazon, you are expected to demonstrate strong Amazon leadership principles. This role requires the ability to foster constructive dialogue and seek resolution when confronted with differing opinions on security risks. Engineers in this role are expected to participate fully in the planning of the AWS Security team's work and constantly seek opportunities for process improvement.
A successful candidate will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills. An AWS Security engineer must have the ability to take ownership and deliver on multiple complex objectives which may include project and software development work.
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
- Shaping new services through security review of design, architecture, and implementation
- Secure development life-cycle (SDLC) practices including threat modeling and security testing
- Strongly influence decision-makers and stakeholders to achieve a consistently high security bar for new services
- Scope and assist in penetration testing engagements for services that will operate at cloud-scale
- Create security guidance and documentation for team and customers
- Develop security tools and automation
- Develop and deliver security training and outreach to internal development teams
- Lead security projects (including security reviews, tool development, and creation of new security practices) with end-to-end ownership across AWS and Amazon initiatives
- Support for mentoring, team building and recruiting activities in a company where security is a critical priority
- Opportunities to communicate security findings to senior leadership across the company
About the team
About Amazon Security
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.
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.
Training & 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.
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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with AWS products and services- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience implementing security solutions that resolve security and business risk trade-offs
- An understanding of communication protocols and data formats (such as TLS, HTTP(S), JSON, XML, Web Sockets)
- An understanding of Identity and authorization provider technologies (OAuth, SAML, OIDC, Identity Federation)
- An understanding of cryptography, web service frameworks, mobile application architectures, and service architectures (such as event-driven, service-oriented, or serverless architectures)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage directly with senior leadership
- Ability to discover and communicate deep technical issues in terms of business risk with non-experts and senior leaders
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