Security Engineer, CS Security
Amazon · Austin, TX · Yesterday
Quality AssuranceFull-time
About the role
The Customer Service Application Security team is seeking a talented and results-driven Security Engineer to help shape how Amazon protects customer data through secure-by-design principles. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining automated security guardrails and paved paths that enable secure-by-default practices across Amazon's technology landscape.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate system designs for security gaps and provide guidance on secure architecture and coding practices.
- Build automated, continuous security assessment capabilities that replace manual security reviews and scale across the business unit.
- Contribute code for security fixes and paved path solutions directly alongside developers, making the secure path the easy path.
- Partner with developers to build scalable, self-service security tools that enable teams to identify and remediate security risks without bottlenecking on security teams.
- Design and implement preventive and detective security controls that provide continuous assurance rather than point-in-time assessments.
- Collaborate with security stakeholders to define and drive the long-term security strategy and participate in periodic on-call rotations to support security incidents.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent 3+ years of programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented languages.
- 3+ years of experience in application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing.