Security Engineer, Enterprise Protection Program

About the team

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.

Key job responsibilities

• Perform deep dive analysis of internal and external datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and activities indicative of insider risks;
• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate use cases into technical requirements, as well as develop, implement, and refine scalable security solutions to identify and mitigate insider risk;
• Assist with identifying and driving opportunities to automate and optimize insider risk analytics, tooling, and processes;
• Contribute to promoting security best practices for identifying and mitigating insider risk by fostering opportunities to collaborate with other EPP and Amazon Security teams, as well as external industry partners, and;
• Provide guidance to peers, managers, and senior leaders on technical direction and improvement opportunities for insider risk analytics, tooling, and processes.

About the role

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every six months.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language 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
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques

Preferred qualifications

• 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
• Experience with AWS products and services
• 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

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

• USA, MD, Annapolis Junction - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Arlington - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Herndon - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually