Amazon.com Services LLC

Systems, Quality, Security Engineering, Systems Security Engineering, amazon security

Sr.SecurityEngineer,AppSec

$175–237k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Sr. Security Engineer, AppSec at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Application security, Security engineering, Risk management. Create threat models. Update threat models”

What You'll Achieve.

Improve outcomes

Industry & Context.

Systems, Quality, Security Engineering, Systems Security Engineering, amazon security
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting systems issues; Analyzing logs; Automating complex tasks; Security problem solving

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years troubleshooting systems issues, 4+ years analyzing logs, 4+ years automating complex tasks, 5+ years identifying security issues, 5+ years developing mitigation plans, 4+ years scripting, 4+ years programming, 4+ years security code review, Knowledge of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go, Experience in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, Experience in attack patterns, Experience in remediation techniques, Bachelor's degree, Experience applying threat modeling, Experience applying risk identification techniques

Nice to Have

Experience with security in service-oriented architectures, Experience with security in microservices, Experience with security in web services, Experience as a mentor, Experience as a tech lead, Experience leading an engineering team, CCSP certification, CEH certification, CFR certification, Cloud+ certification, CySA+ certification, GCED certification, GICSP certification, PenTest+ certification

What You'll Do.

Maintain threat models

Perform manual secure code review

Perform automated secure code review

Develop security automation tools

Perform adversarial security analysis

Provide security training

Provide security outreach

Provide security architecture guidance

Provide security design guidance

Solve security problems

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with software development teams; Influence team process; Influence partner process; Influence team priorities; Influence partner priorities; Influence team choices; Influence partner choices

Communication Scope

Articulate risks

Full Job Description

In Amazon Stores, we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From Amazon.com to world class machine learning pipelines, from digital healthcare to no-checkout retail, we push the boundaries of technology in every direction using the globe’s largest AWS deployment. As a Senior Security 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! 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 innovative tools to augment manual effort. * Security training and outreach for internal development teams. * Security architecture and design guidance. * Independently solve security problems that require nov

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