2 days ago
Austin, TX, USA or Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$159k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automated security guardrails and paved paths that enable secure-by-default practices.
- Partner with development teams during ideation and design to provide secure architecture and coding guidance.
- Build continuous automated security assessment capabilities that 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.
- Help define long-term security strategy and participate in periodic on-call rotations supporting security incidents.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 3+ years of programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .NET, C++, or a similar object-oriented language.
- Knowledge of networking protocols including HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
- 3+ years of combined experience in application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
- Preferred: 2+ years of combined experience in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
- Preferred: experience with AWS products and services and implementing security solutions at the business-division level or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication.
- Preferred: experience using LLMs to automate and scale security, including understanding related risks and mitigations.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health insurance, 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.
- The role includes flexible work hours and arrangements, ongoing training, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- The position is available in Austin, Texas, or 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.