2 months ago
Base Salary
$178k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create, update, and maintain threat models for cloud-hosted web applications.
- Perform manual and automated secure code reviews, primarily in Java, Python, and JavaScript.
- Develop security automation tools and conduct adversarial security analysis.
- Provide security training, outreach, architecture guidance, and design guidance to application development teams.
- Solve complex systemic security problems and develop novel mitigation approaches.
- Use data to influence processes, priorities, strategy, and security outcomes.
- Provide technical and strategic guidance to senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Mentor other engineers and lead cross-functional security improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 5+ years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
- Preferred: experience applying threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience with security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life plan options, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Benefits include 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units.
- The company provides ongoing knowledge-sharing, training, career-growth resources, DEI learning experiences, and workplace flexibility supporting work-life harmony.
- The position is based in Seattle, Washington.
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.