Amazon

Security Engineer, CS Security

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Austin, TX, USA or Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
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Base Salary

$136k - $184k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain automated security guardrails and paved paths.
  • Engage development teams during ideation and design to provide secure architecture and coding guidance.
  • Build automated, continuous security assessment capabilities to replace manual reviews.
  • Contribute code for security fixes and paved path solutions alongside developers.
  • Build scalable, self-service security tools for identifying and remediating security risks.
  • Design and implement preventive and detective security controls for continuous assurance.
  • Collaborate on long-term security strategy and participate in periodic security incident on-call rotations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • At least 2 years of non-internship experience with web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation.
  • Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and exploit development or equivalent.
  • Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance.
  • At least 3 years of experience in one or more of application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
  • Preferred experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings.
  • Preferred ability to communicate complex concepts effectively in writing and verbally.
  • Preferred experience using Large Language Models to automate and scale security, including understanding related risks and mitigations.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health, medical advice line, flexible spending, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Flexible work hours and arrangements.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package.
  • Position locations include Austin, Texas, and Seattle, Washington.

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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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