Application Security Engineer: Protecting Apps & Cloud

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a security engineer with strong network and system security experience to join our security operations team in Seattle. The role involves protecting networks, endpoints, servers, and applications, and working on large-scale security solutions across business units.

You will collaborate with security engineers, technical program managers, developers, and systems engineers to safeguard customers and raise the security bar.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation experience
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing
• Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts

Responsibilities

• Preserve Amazon customer trust
• Perform application security reviews of critical systems and services
• Engineer security solutions to protect systems, networks and applications
• Security design and testing of the most critical Amazon applications
• Respond to security violations, vulnerabilities, and event detection systems
• Provide security policy guidance and consultations
• Evangelize security within Amazon and be an advocate for customer trust
• Be part of a team on-call rotation
• Provide security guidance and support to Amazon builders
• Develop and deliver projects that raise the security bar at scale
• Work closely with partner teams to drive security improvements across the company

Skills

Security engineering experience

Web protocols knowledge

Security testing

Code/script writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a security engineer with strong network and system security experience to join our security operations team in Seattle. The role involves protecting networks, endpoints, servers, and applications, and working on large-scale security solutions across business units.

You will collaborate with security engineers, technical program managers, developers, and systems engineers to safeguard customers and raise the security bar.