AddressAs an AppSec engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. In a given day, you might be inspecting an application’s code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service alongside its software developers.
The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise. In their communication, they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.
Our organization prizes its employees, and we show it through investing in work-life harmony. We have dedicated resources that consistently innovate in reducing on-call time and ensuring the team spend their time on the highest-value tasks. Join the stores AppSec organization to work hard, have fun, and make history!
Stores Security
Amazon develops products and services that transform the way customers live. Across teams and geographies, we strive to delight customers and earn their trust. Members of the Stores Security team are guardians of that trust. From drones to grocery stores and everything in between, our mission is to assess risk, classify data and systems, detect potential intrusion, and respond quickly to security events across Amazon’s critical business functions, including Retail, Customer Service, Worldwide Operations, Consumer Payments, Physical Stores, and Healthcare. We collaborate with business teams across Amazon to build security best practices into their mechanisms. Together, we are building (and securing) the future, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. The scope and scale of what Amazon does to delight customers challenges all Amazonians to be resourceful, invent and simplify, meet high standards, and embrace change.
Key job responsibilities
• Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
• Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and JavaScript.
• Development of security automation tools.
• Adversarial security analysis using cutting-edge tools to augment manual effort
• Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
• Security architecture and design guidance
• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
• Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes
About the team
AppSec MAST runs a novel program aiming to raise the bar as high as possible for Amazon's most-privileged applications.
We partner with the developers of these applications to ensure security not just at a point in time, but from development to deployment and beyond.
Engineers on this team have the opportunity to get deeply engaged in Amazon's most-core technology and deliver security improvements that will impact millions of individual users.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | New York, NY, USA
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS products and services- Experience implementing security solutions at the business division level or equivalent
- You demonstrate excellent judgement in assessing and prioritizing technical risk.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $135,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
