AppSec Security Engineer — Flexible Hours & Growth

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon AWS Security is seeking an Application Security Engineer to ensure services, applications, and websites meet the highest security standards. You will analyze security, address issues, build automation, and react quickly to new threats while learning from seasoned security engineers.

You will collaborate with engineering teams on secure design, threat modeling, code reviews, and developing security tooling and metrics to improve security posture across services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent.
• Experience in application security architecture, security code reviews, security testing, incident response, or security infrastructure.
• Experience with web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship).
• Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance.

Responsibilities

• Application security reviews.
• Mobile security reviews.
• Secure architecture design.
• Threat modeling.
• Projects and research work as needed.
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams.
• Security guidance documentation.
• Security tool development.
• Security metrics delivery and improvements.

Skills

System security

Penetration testing

Security architecture

Security reviews

Programming in Java/C++/Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon AWS Security is seeking an Application Security Engineer to ensure services, applications, and websites meet the highest security standards. You will analyze security, address issues, build automation, and react quickly to new threats while learning from seasoned security engineers.

You will collaborate with engineering teams on secure design, threat modeling, code reviews, and developing security tooling and metrics to improve security posture across services.