Senior Application Security Engineer (AppRank)

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Stores’ AppSec team seeks a Security Engineer to advance AppRank and scale security across diverse, high-scale systems. You will translate complex architecture into actionable insights, design automation, and drive secure design across development lifecycles.

You will partner with software engineers, product managers, and security leadership, perform code reviews, build internal tooling, and help identify and remediate vulnerabilities at scale while mentoring teams on prevention and best

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non‑internship) experience
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
• Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language (non‑internship)
• Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non‑internship experience)
• 4+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience
• Knowledge of one or more domains: access‑control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience

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

Java

C++

Go

Swift

Ruby

Command line

Security vulnerabilities

Code review

AppSec

Cloud security

Threat intelligence

Penetration testing

Identity and access controls

Network security

Access control

Security architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Tools

Job description

Amazon Stores’ AppSec team seeks a Security Engineer to advance AppRank and scale security across diverse, high-scale systems. You will translate complex architecture into actionable insights, design automation, and drive secure design across development lifecycles.

You will partner with software engineers, product managers, and security leadership, perform code reviews, build internal tooling, and help identify and remediate vulnerabilities at scale while mentoring teams on prevention and best