Platform Security Engineer: Scale Security & Automation

VulnU; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Retirement match

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Amazon Seattle is seeking a Security Engineer for Platform Security to help design and operate scalable security controls across our services. You will independently solve complex security problems, develop tooling to detect and prevent issues, and drive security best practices across teams.

The role requires 2+ years in web security, a degree in Engineering or CS, and experience with AWS, SDLC security activities, and scripting languages.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience with coding/scripting in one or more languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby, or PowerShell).

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 remediation

Python

C++

Java

PowerShell

Threat modeling

Secure SDLC

AWS cloud

Networking basics

Education

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

Job description

Amazon Seattle is seeking a Security Engineer for Platform Security to help design and operate scalable security controls across our services. You will independently solve complex security problems, develop tooling to detect and prevent issues, and drive security best practices across teams.

The role requires 2+ years in web security, a degree in Engineering or CS, and experience with AWS, SDLC security activities, and scripting languages.