16 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct application security reviews.
- Threat model AWS services and identify security risks.
- Research security issues and continuously improve security processes.
- Provide security training and outreach to internal development teams.
- Create security guidance documentation.
- Develop security tools and automation.
- Deliver and improve security metrics.
- Mentor junior engineers and serve as a security resource and thought leader.
- Assist with recruiting activities and administrative work.
- Participate in planning, workshops, troubleshooting, and process improvement for the AWS IT Security team.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- Non-internship industry experience identifying security vulnerabilities, understanding attack patterns, and applying remediation techniques.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Preferred: experience applying threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.
- Ability to pass required program background checks; a security clearance is not required.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements.
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance and mental health support programs, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Ongoing training, knowledge-sharing, and career-advancing resources.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall package.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.