Security Engineer II – AI-Driven App Security & Risk

JobCubby; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Austin is seeking a Security Engineer to join AppSec and support AppRank, an initiative identifying the most critical applications and criteria. You will translate complex architecture into actionable security insights and scale controls across the development lifecycle.

You will work with software teams, product managers, and security leadership to prevent vulnerabilities early, driving secure design and automated security in pipelines at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python or similar object oriented language.
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command line tools.
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Experience in scripting and security code reviewing.
• 4+ years in app security frameworks, IAM, incident response, and cloud security.
• Knowledge of security domains: access-control, network, app/system security, cryptography.

Responsibilities

• Engineer AI-driven solutions to assess and classify security findings across business units.
• Identify root causes of recurring vulnerabilities and develop systemic remediation strategies.
• Design and build internal tools to analyze patterns in security findings and prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with application teams to implement preventative security controls earlier in the development lifecycle (Shift-Left).
• Develop automated workflows to integrate security insights into developer pipelines.
• Perform targeted code reviews and static/dynamic analysis to validate findings and guide mitigations.
• Contribute to the creation of security dashboards and metrics for visibility into finding trends and remediation velocity.
• Partner with security leadership and engineering stakeholders to define and prioritize high-impact prevention efforts.
• Investigate and eradicate classes of vulnerabilities through scalable solutions.
• Guide teams through remediations by providing technical mentorship and secure design best practices.
• Maintain deep awareness of emerging threats, and proactively adapt tooling and processes to address them.

Skills

Python

Troubleshooting

Security vulnerabilities knowledge

Scripting

AppSec experience

Security domains knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon Austin is seeking a Security Engineer to join AppSec and support AppRank, an initiative identifying the most critical applications and criteria. You will translate complex architecture into actionable security insights and scale controls across the development lifecycle.

You will work with software teams, product managers, and security leadership to prevent vulnerabilities early, driving secure design and automated security in pipelines at scale.