Application Security Engineer, Amazon Application Security

About the Role

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering customer experiences. The Amazon Security organization creates and maintains a high standard of security across Amazon’s products and services, offering security professionals opportunities to build experience across areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Amazon continuously innovates new services and features for customers. Our engineers invent, build, and improve products and services across websites, web services, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, drones, and devices. Security remains a top priority in everything we build.

The Amazon Application Security team works with builders to create experiences that customers can trust. This involves learning new technologies and solving complex problems to protect the safety, security, and privacy of billions of people worldwide.

We are looking for an Application Security Engineer to join the Application Security team. The ideal candidate can prioritize effectively, communicate clearly and compellingly, and maintain a high level of focus and excellence in a growing application landscape. Passion and discipline for cloud computing are critical, as are ownership and accountability.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Conduct application security reviews.
• Design secure architectures.
• Perform threat modeling.
• Support projects and research initiatives as needed.
• Deliver security training and outreach to internal development teams.
• Create and maintain security guidance documentation.
• Deliver and improve security metrics.
• Assist with recruiting activities.

About Amazon Security

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply. If your career is just starting, has not followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, do not let that stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it is in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion events and learning experiences encourage us to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires seeking out and celebrating diverse ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training and Career Growth

Amazon continuously raises its performance standards while striving to become Earth’s best employer. Employees have access to knowledge-sharing, training, and other career development resources to help them become better-rounded professionals.

Work-Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should not come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive to provide flexibility as part of our working culture.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an equivalent field.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
• Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .NET, C++, or a similar object-oriented language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS products and services.
• Experience with one or more of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++.
• Experience with AI- or LLM-based automation of security workflows.