Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security

Job Summary
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Amazon is a leading technology company that values security as a central component of customer trust and experience. The Security Engineer will be responsible for securing applications, infrastructure, and data, providing security consultations, conducting application security reviews, and developing security automation tools to enhance security practices across the organization.

Responsibilities
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• Security consultations and guidance - Get expert advice on security best practices and implementation strategies

• Application security reviews and threat modeling
-Comprehensive security assessments for new features and applications

• Security architecture decisions - Design reviews and architectural guidance to build security in from the start

• Issue remediation - Support for addressing security findings, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps

• Security backlog management - Prioritization and tracking of security improvements and technical backlog

• Compliance and security standards questions - Guidance on meeting organizational security policies and industry standards

• Security tooling and automation - Help with integrating security tools into your development workflows

• Perform Design and Security Reviews to determine the level of risk they present to our customers, and then accordingly prioritize their remediation in conjunction with the service team.

• Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon

• Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective

• Escalate issues and provide recommendations to senior leadership when issues are not progressing at the correct pace based on impact to ensure we are putting customers first.

• Explore building and improving our tooling to make your own life easier and share that benefit with all our engineers globally.

• Contribute to recruiting activities, mentoring and administrative work

• Create, update, and maintain threat models for a wide variety of software projects

• Perform Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Java script

• Develop security automation tools

• Adversarial security analysis using tools to augment manual effort

• Provide Security training and outreach for internal development teams

• Provide Security architecture and design guidance to application development teams

• Independently solve systemic, complex security problems that require novel methods or approaches

• Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices by using data to improve security outcomes

• Provide technical and strategic guidance to senior leaders and stakeholders through effective oral and written communications

Qualifications
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Required
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• 4+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques

Preferred
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• Experience with AWS products and services

• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++

• Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks

Company
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Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Seattle, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.