Security Engineer III: Threat Modeling & Secure Frameworks

Amazon.com Services LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Sign-on payments and RSUs

Job summary

Amazon's Customer Service Security team seeks a Systems Security Engineer to identify customer service security risks and translate them into pragmatic controls. This role focuses on scalable security frameworks that support secure customer interactions and consistent engineering practices across global operations.

This position owns security architecture decisions for customer service systems, leads risk mitigation discussions, and mentors security engineers.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools
• 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans
• 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages
• Knowledge of at least two of: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go
• Experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans
• Non-internship experience identifying industry-based security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
• Experience mentoring, serving as a technical lead, or leading an engineering team

Responsibilities

• Lead security reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for customer service systems, selecting pragmatic approaches that enable secure releases.
• Design and build security controls and engineering solutions to protect customer data and support secure customer contacts at scale.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams to understand emerging risks and define security strategies where none exist.
• Create security frameworks, runbooks, and rubrics for new problem domains so other engineers can apply consistent, repeatable security practices.
• Communicate security risk and design decisions in writing for both technical and non-technical audiences, and mentor other security engineers on best practices.

Skills

Command line

Log analysis

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Tools

Scala

Java

Python

C/C++

Go

Job description

Amazon's Customer Service Security team seeks a Systems Security Engineer to identify customer service security risks and translate them into pragmatic controls. This role focuses on scalable security frameworks that support secure customer interactions and consistent engineering practices across global operations.

This position owns security architecture decisions for customer service systems, leads risk mitigation discussions, and mentors security engineers.