1 day ago
Base Salary
$178k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish product-specific security bars, threat models, and defense priorities.
- Guide builder teams toward secure-by-default solutions and advise on complex security decisions.
- Identify design and implementation defects, technical debt, vulnerabilities, and long-term security risks.
- Advocate for security testing tools, detection mechanisms, security linting, and static analysis.
- Mentor engineers and security advocates through one-on-one sessions and office hours.
- Assist red teams with security-testing priorities, penetration-test scoping, and technical deep dives.
- Investigate emerging security issues, perform root-cause analysis, and design preventative mechanisms.
- Partner with business and product leaders to define security priorities and measure security execution.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting system 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 mentoring, serving as a technical lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Strong written and oral communication skills across technical, business, and executive audiences.
- Preferred: experience with threat modeling or equivalent risk-identification techniques.
- Preferred: experience securing service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.
- Preferred: experience using data and metrics to evaluate outcomes and support decisions.
- Preferred: 8+ years of experience performing or participating in technical security assessments at the code, application, or network/infrastructure level.
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee due to export-control requirements.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of the company culture.
- Benefits include health, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Amazon provides training, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- The position is based in Redmond, 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.