Application Security Manager — Lead & Elevate Security

Cybersecurity Jobs; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 175,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Health insurance (medical, dental, and

Life insurance}

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon’s AWS Proactive Security leads a team of application security engineers to raise the security standard across the portfolio, owning the security assurance process and using metrics to show measurable risk reduction over time.

Location: Austin, TX onsite. Salary: USD 175,100 - 236,900 per year. This role focuses on recruiting, coaching, and driving scalable security practices across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Must have 5+ years of managing and developing teams.
• 5+ years in software security or related operating environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.
• Knowledge of security of web services, cryptography, network security protocols, and operating system security.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and organize a team of application security engineers, including ownership of professional development and coaching.
• Set strategy for increasing the application security bar and evolve the security assurance process your team operates.
• Own security reviews, threat modeling, and penetration test coordination for your portfolio.
• Define metrics and perform data analysis to measure team performance and security outcomes, focusing on risk reduction.
• Review active security reviews and threat models to unblock engineers and weigh in on high-risk findings.
• Drive process and operational improvements that scale review capacity as demand grows.
• Partner with service and business teams to guide penetration test coordination and remediation support.
• Represent the organization to business leaders and technical staff, providing risk-mitigation guidance.
• Manage recruiting, team composition, and hiring bar for your area.
• Contribute to cross-AWS security initiatives and communicate status and results.

Skills

Team management

Security leadership

Threat modeling

Application security

Coaching & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Security

Job description

Amazon’s AWS Proactive Security leads a team of application security engineers to raise the security standard across the portfolio, owning the security assurance process and using metrics to show measurable risk reduction over time.

Location: Austin, TX onsite. Salary: USD 175,100 - 236,900 per year. This role focuses on recruiting, coaching, and driving scalable security practices across engineering teams.