Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon is a leading technology company that pushes the boundaries of innovation across various domains. They are seeking a Security Engineer to collaborate with software development teams, ensuring customer safety while developing new services and applications.
Responsibilities
- Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects
- Conducting first-party application security research
- Performing manual and automated secure code review, primarily in Java, Python, and JavaScript
- Identifying and mitigating security issues at scale
- Developing security automation tools
- Performing adversarial security analysis using innovative tools to augment manual effort
- Providing security guidance and working with internal software development teams to secure their applications
- Independently solving security problems that require novel methods or approaches
- Influencing your team's and partners' processes, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes
Skills
- 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 or equivalent, or 3+ years of IT Security experience
- Experience with 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.)
- Experience with explaining complex technical risks in simple, clear language so that non-technical stakeholders can easily understand and take appropriate action
- Experience with AWS services, network architecture, and enterprise IT systems
- Experience driving continuous and scalable improvements in security controls and practices, and collaborating with security stakeholders to develop and implement security strategies
- 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and penetration testing experience
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
- EAP
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Option for Supplemental life plans
- Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture
- Endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional
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