At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services and provides security professionals the opportunity to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
We are looking for an experienced application security engineer to join the Application Security team. You should know how to prioritize, communicate clearly and compellingly, and maintain a high level of focus and excellence in a growing application landscape. Passion and discipline around cloud computing is critical, as is a high level of ownership and accountability.
Key Responsibilities
- Application security reviews
- Secure architecture design
- Threat modeling
- Projects and research work as needed
- Security training and outreach to internal development teams
- Automating and enhancing security review processes using AI agents, LLMs, and generative AI tooling
- Security guidance documentation
- Security metrics delivery and improvements
- Assistance with recruiting activities
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP
- Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object‑oriented language
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience in any combination of the following: application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, secure infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls, threat modeling, cryptography, threat intelligence, or secure software development
- AI/LLM‑based automation of security workflows
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
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