2 days ago
Base Salary
$159k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own security outcomes for assigned builder teams and their HR and Legal applications.
- Threat model GenAI and LLM-backed applications, including prompt injection, insecure output handling, data leakage, and excessive agent authority.
- Secure agentic workflows through transitive authentication and scoped authorization.
- Author automated detection rules that identify risks at code commit and provide actionable fixes.
- Use GenAI for AI-assisted code review, detection authoring, and triage.
- Drive adoption of Secure CDK Blueprints, automated patching, standardized authorization, and transitive authentication.
- Perform adversarial analysis and manual secure code review in Java, Python, and JavaScript.
- Provide security architecture guidance and lead security outcomes for design reviews.
- Prioritize remediation by business impact and escalate launch-blocking risks when necessary.
- Communicate security outcomes to security and service-team leadership and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- 3+ years of programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, or a similar object-oriented language.
- 2+ years of scripting, programming, and non-internship security code review experience.
- 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks with command-line tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or experience in IT Security.
- Knowledge of industry security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
- Preferred experience includes threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security.
- Knowledge of HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP networking protocols.
- Experience with AWS products and services.
- Experience performing security activities such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing across the software development lifecycle.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, and mental health support.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, flexible work hours and arrangements, and flexible spending accounts.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage and employee assistance resources.
- Ongoing knowledge-sharing, training, DEI learning experiences, and career-development resources.
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.