Amazon

Application Security Engineer

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2 days ago
Arlington, VA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$159k - $202k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Perform application security reviews and penetration testing.
  • Analyze the security of applications, services, and websites and address identified security issues.
  • Build security automation and security tools and respond to new threat scenarios.
  • Conduct security research and projects as needed.
  • Provide security training, outreach, guidance, and documentation to internal development teams.
  • Deliver and improve security metrics.
  • Participate in planning, process improvement, recruiting activities, and administrative work.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of networking protocols including HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
  • Programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .NET, C++, or a similar object-oriented language.
  • Experience in areas such as application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, secure infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls, threat modeling, cryptography, threat intelligence, or secure software development.
  • Knowledge of one or more security domains including web application development, penetration testing, mobile security, cryptography, public key infrastructure, forensic security, IP security, SSL/TLS, malware, network security, trusted execution, threat intelligence, IoT security, or authentication.
  • Preferred experience with AWS products and services, threat modeling, secure coding, identity management, authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, network security, and web services.
  • Preferred experience with Python, Java, or C++ and with security and engineering teams.

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours and arrangements.
  • Health, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Training, knowledge-sharing, DEI learning experiences, and career-development resources.
  • Compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units in addition to base salary.

Tech Stack

AWSC++GoJava.NETPythonRubySwift

Categories

Amazon

About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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