Senior Application Security Engineer — Proactive & Automation

Cybersecurity Jobs; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments/RSUs

Health insurance (medical, dental, etc

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Security is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer to partner with engineering teams to analyze application security, identify risks, and build security automation. You will mentor engineers, respond to threat scenarios, and drive improvements in security training, outreach, and processes.

The role focuses on proactive application security analyses, issue discovery and remediation, and metrics-driven guidance, with onsite work in Arlington, VA and collaboration across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of application security and related areas.
• 5+ years of full secure software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing and operations.
• 4+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review in common languages.
• Knowledge of at least two of the following languages: Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
• Experience mentoring, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
• Knowledge of HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP.

Responsibilities

• Conduct application security reviews, including architecture reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and security testing.
• Perform mobile security reviews.
• Support projects and research work as needed.
• Provide security training and outreach to internal development teams.
• Deliver security guidance and documentation.
• Build security workflow automation.
• Deliver security metrics and drive process improvements.
• Assist with recruiting activities and administrative work.

Skills

Application security

Secure SDLC

Threat modeling

Security code reviews

Java

Python

C/C++

Go

Mentorship / leadership

Networking basics

HTTP(S)/DNS/TCP-IP

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Security is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer to partner with engineering teams to analyze application security, identify risks, and build security automation. You will mentor engineers, respond to threat scenarios, and drive improvements in security training, outreach, and processes.

The role focuses on proactive application security analyses, issue discovery and remediation, and metrics-driven guidance, with onsite work in Arlington, VA and collaboration across multiple teams.