Senior Security Engineer — Embedded Security Lead & Automation

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs (stock)

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to serve as the embedded security lead on Customer Service's largest initiatives. You will own security assurance from ideation through launch, reviewing designs and code to ensure security, and turning findings into guardrails and automated controls across the business unit.

You will also champion secure coding standards, build training, and strengthen security culture across development teams, while mentoring engineers and guiding

Qualifications

• 5+ years identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
• 4+ years scripting, programming, and security code review in common languages.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior security engineer on large, complex initiatives across Customer Service. Own security assurance from ideation through launch and give teams and leaders confidence that what they ship protects customer data.
• Design automated guardrails, paved paths and secure-by-default patterns that remove classes of vulnerabilities across the business unit, and set the technical direction other engineers build on.
• Take on ambiguous security problems where the business direction is clear but the technical strategy is not.
• Drive the shift from manual, point-in-time reviews to continuous security assurance by designing preventive and detective controls and automated assessment that work at scale.
• Review the designs, code and tooling of security engineers and SDEs to make sure they fit the bigger picture and are well secured, extensible, efficient and easy for developers to adopt.
• Improve security beyond technology by championing secure coding standards, building training, improving processes and strengthening security culture across development teams.
• Help define and drive the team's long-term security strategy with security and engineering stakeholders, informed by research into emerging threats and new techniques.
• Grow the team by mentoring engineers, taking part in hiring and interviews, and giving career guidance.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to serve as the embedded security lead on Customer Service's largest initiatives. You will own security assurance from ideation through launch, reviewing designs and code to ensure security, and turning findings into guardrails and automated controls across the business unit.

You will also champion secure coding standards, build training, and strengthen security culture across development teams, while mentoring engineers and guiding