Application Security Engineer: Scale Security for Critical Apps

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon's Security team in Seattle is hiring a security engineer focused on network and system security to join our security operations. You will work on large-scale security solutions across multiple business units and collaborate with security engineers, TPMs, developers and systems engineers to protect customers and raise the security bar.

You will help preserve customer trust, perform reviews of critical systems, and respond to security incidents while contributing to security policy guidance

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship)
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship)
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques

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

Python

Ruby

Go

Swift

Java

.Net

C++

OO language

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Command line tools

Job description

Amazon's Security team in Seattle is hiring a security engineer focused on network and system security to join our security operations. You will work on large-scale security solutions across multiple business units and collaborate with security engineers, TPMs, developers and systems engineers to protect customers and raise the security bar.

You will help preserve customer trust, perform reviews of critical systems, and respond to security incidents while contributing to security policy guidance