Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security

Amazon•Boston, MA

5d•$136,000 - $212,800

About The Position

Corporate Services Security (CPSS) is the Amazon security team aligned to Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), People eXperience & Technology (PXT), Legal, and Communications and Corporate Responsibility (CCR) business organizations. Our Mission is to protect and safeguard Amazon's corporate services, systems, and data. Through proactive engagement with the development teams, we understand the dynamic business processes that run Amazon, and enable our stakeholders to innovate, build, and scale securely. The Product Security Team within CPSS supports numerous applications built using AWS Services. Apart from work, we provide opportunities for our engineers to pursue projects they are passionate about while maintaining work life harmony. As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with application development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing novel services. In a given day, you might be inspecting an application’s code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service. The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security specialist with one or more areas of deep expertise within application security. They will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions. The Corporate Services Security (CPSS) Product Security Team is responsible for securing the applications, infrastructure and data developed across People eXperience and Technology (PXT), Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), Legal and Communications and Corporate Responsibility (CCR). We partner with builder teams to minimize security risks across their applications while being a business enabler. Our team develops security tooling and automation to provide high quality security findings earlier in development lifecycles. Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. 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. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Requirements

3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience
Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language (non-internship)
Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship experience)
2+ 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, or security code review in a common language, such as Python, Java or C++ experience
Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks
Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
Knowledge of networking protocols, to include HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
Experience with AWS products and services

Responsibilities

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 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.
Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative work
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 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