Senior Application Security Engineer - Store Security

Amazon; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Stores Security is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to partner with software teams, review code for security issues, build frameworks, and shape secure designs across services.

The role emphasizes leadership by influence, broad security expertise, clear communication, and guiding risk-based decisions across Amazon Security. Collaboration with diverse teams drives secure, scalable solutions for the business.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• 5+ years of work in 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 the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience in one or more of the following domains: access-control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security.
• 8+ years of Application Security or Development experience

Responsibilities

• Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
• Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and JavaScript.
• Development of security automation tools.
• Adversarial security analysis using innovative tools to augment manual effort.
• Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
• Security architecture and design guidance.
• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
• Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes.

Skills

Troubleshooting logs

Security issue identification

Scripting

Programming languages

Security domains

Application Security

Job description

Amazon Stores Security is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to partner with software teams, review code for security issues, build frameworks, and shape secure designs across services.

The role emphasizes leadership by influence, broad security expertise, clear communication, and guiding risk-based decisions across Amazon Security. Collaboration with diverse teams drives secure, scalable solutions for the business.