AppSec Engineer: Safeguard Critical Cloud Apps

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Information Security team is seeking a security engineer specialized in network and system security to join our security operations team. You will work hands-on on protecting customer trust across networks, endpoints, servers and applications, collaborating with security engineers, TPMs, developers and systems engineers to raise the security bar.

You will participate in on-call rotations, conduct security reviews for critical systems, and help deliver large-scale security solutions

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) experience.
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 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.
• Perform application security reviews for critical systems and services
• Develop and deliver projects that raise the security bar at scale
• Work closely with partner teams, stakeholders, builders to drive security improvements across the company
• Troubleshoot, maintain and improve internal team tooling to reduce overhead and improve efficiency

Skills

Python

Go

Java

C++

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon's Information Security team is seeking a security engineer specialized in network and system security to join our security operations team. You will work hands-on on protecting customer trust across networks, endpoints, servers and applications, collaborating with security engineers, TPMs, developers and systems engineers to raise the security bar.

You will participate in on-call rotations, conduct security reviews for critical systems, and help deliver large-scale security solutions