Amazon · 1 week ago
Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$136K/yr - $213K/yr
3+ years expAmazon is a leading technology company focused on customer trust and security. The Security Engineer will collaborate with application development teams to ensure security across Amazon's corporate services, performing security reviews, building security tools, and providing guidance to stakeholders.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Perform Design and Security Reviews to determine the level of risk they present to our customers, and then accordingly prioritize their remediation in conjunction with the service team
Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon
Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective
Escalate issues to senior leadership when issues are not progressing at the correct pace based on impact to ensure we are putting customers first
Explore building and improving our tooling to make your own life easier and share that benefit with all our engineers globally
Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative work
Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects
Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Javascript
Development of security automation tools
Adversarial security analysis using tools to augment manual effort
Provide Security training and outreach for internal development teams
Provide Security architecture and design guidance to application development teams
Independently solve systemic, complex security problems that require novel methods or approaches
Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices by using data to improve security outcomes
Provide technical and strategic guidance to senior leaders and stakeholders through effective oral and written communications
Qualification
Required
3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience
Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language (non-internship)
Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship experience)
Preferred
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
2+ years of scripting, programming, or security code review in a common language, such as Python, Java or C++ experience
Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks
Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
Knowledge of networking protocols, to include HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
Experience with AWS products and services
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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