Application Security Engineer , SDO AppSec EMEA

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer to work within its security team, responsible for creating secure services and ensuring the safety of a diverse range of products. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in application security, display a collaborative mindset, and actively engage in continuous learning. With a focus on threat modeling and secure code reviews, this role promises to leverage the latest security practices in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Training and career growth opportunities

Work-life balance initiatives

Diverse team culture

Qualifications

• Experience with threat modeling, secure coding, and identity management.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, and C++.
• Experience with risk identification techniques.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain threat models for software projects.
• Conduct manual and automated secure code reviews.
• Assist in building security automation tools.

Skills

Threat Modeling

Secure Coding

Identity Management

Cryptography

Network Security

Application Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

As a Security Engineer, you will work closely with software development teams to help design, build, and review secure services. You will support efforts such as identifying security issues in code and architecture, implementing security tooling, and contributing to frameworks that enable secure software development at scale.

This role is ideal for someone with strong technical fundamentals in application security and a desire to grow their expertise across security domains. You should be comfortable diving deep into technical problems, collaborating with engineers across teams, and applying your knowledge to real-world security challenges. You will be encouraged to continuously learn and develop your skills.

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.
- Assist in building and maintaining security automation tools to improve coverage and reduce manual efforts.
- Adversarial security analysis through tooling and manual techniques to identify vulnerabilities
- Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
- Security architecture and design guidance.
- Investigate and help resolve security issues, proposing creative solutions where standard approaches may not apply.

About the team
Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or equivalent years of engineering experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Information security professional certifications.
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
- Have experience building and securing complex AWS architecture.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.