AppSec Security Engineer — Shape Secure Stores

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

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle is seeking a Security Engineer for AppSec in Stores Security. You will collaborate with software teams to identify and mitigate risks, review code, and build security tooling across a broad set of services.

You’ll influence design decisions and help teams ship safer software. The role emphasizes threat modeling, automated reviews, training, and security architecture guidance, with opportunities to work across cloud, devices, and retail platforms.

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 with web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship).
• Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance.
• Experience in application security architecture, security code reviews, security testing, incident response, or security infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects
• Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and JavaScript
• Development of security automation tools
• Adversarial security analysis using modern tools to augment manual effort
• Security training and outreach for internal development teams
• Security architecture and design guidance
• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
• Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes

Skills

Security vulnerabilities knowledge

Penetration testing

Security remediation techniques

Scripting basics

Web protocols

Security architecture

Code reviews

Security testing

Incident response

Security infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Tools

AWS services

Cloud security

Job description

Amazon in Seattle is seeking a Security Engineer for AppSec in Stores Security. You will collaborate with software teams to identify and mitigate risks, review code, and build security tooling across a broad set of services.

You’ll influence design decisions and help teams ship safer software. The role emphasizes threat modeling, automated reviews, training, and security architecture guidance, with opportunities to work across cloud, devices, and retail platforms.