Platform Security Engineer: Scale & Automation

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

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer to help ensure its infrastructure is designed and built to the highest security standards. You will lead security initiatives, detect and prevent issues at scale, and develop automation tools across the software development lifecycle.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, a passion for security, and growth across multiple domains within Amazon's security organization.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience coding/scripting in Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby, or PowerShell.
• Experience performing security activities across SDLC including security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing.

Responsibilities

• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
• Develop solutions to detect / prevent security issues at scale.
• Development of security automation tools.
• Influence your team's and partners' process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes.
• Demonstrate and promote security best practices, drive improvements of Amazon's overall security architecture.

Skills

Web protocols & security

Security lifecycle experience

Programming/scripting languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or CS

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer to help ensure its infrastructure is designed and built to the highest security standards. You will lead security initiatives, detect and prevent issues at scale, and develop automation tools across the software development lifecycle.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, a passion for security, and growth across multiple domains within Amazon's security organization.