Security Engineer II, Stores Application Security

About the role

In Amazon Stores, we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From amazon.com to world-class machine learning pipelines, from innovative digital healthcare to no-checkout retail, we push the boundaries of technology in every direction using the globe's largest AWS deployment.

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

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

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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, CA, Virtual Location - California - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Virtual Location - Texas - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Virtual Location - Virginia - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Virtual Location - Washington - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually