Security Engineer II, Stores AppSec

Amazon • Austin, TX

8d

About The Position

Welcome to Team LOAF. Our mission is to prevent security vulnerabilities from
reaching production by identifying root causes and building scalable solutions
that eliminate findings at their source.

What We Do
Team LOAF focuses on systemic security improvement across the organization. We
investigate significant vulnerabilities to uncover patterns, then build
preventative mechanisms that reduce recurrence with minimal builder effort.
Rather than simply remediating individual findings, we address the underlying
causes that generate them at scale.

We prioritize our work based on impact, targeting business units with the
highest volume, severity, or concentration of security findings. Our solutions
(paved paths, secure defaults, and reusable components) benefit broad segments
of builders across the organization.

How We Work
Our approach combines deep technical analysis with scalable automation:

Root Cause Analysis: We perform thorough investigations of vulnerabilities using
both manual research and AI-powered tooling to identify systemic patterns across
the security landscape
Preventative Mechanisms: We design and implement frameworks and components that
shift security left in the development lifecycle
Security Dashboards: We build dashboards for teams, leadership, and customers
that surface trends, highlight risky concentrations, and track remediation
velocity

AI-Driven Analysis: We're maturing an LLM-based engine to automate pattern
detection across large datasets, enabling analysis at scale across 75M+ findings

Cross-Functional Partnership: We collaborate closely with AppSec, tooling teams,
security reviewers, and business units to ensure our solutions are both
technically sound and practically adopted

Your Impact
As part of Team LOAF, you'll deliver systemic security improvements that prevent
findings from reaching production, reduce builder toil, and advance the security
control landscape through scalable, automated solutions. Your work will have
measurable impact across the organization's security posture.

About the team
About Amazon Security

Diverse Experiences
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.

Why Amazon Security?
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.

Inclusive Team Culture
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.

Training & Career Growth
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.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the
expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of
our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,
there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Requirements

• 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
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of networking protocols, to include HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing

Responsibilities

• Conduct root cause analysis of security vulnerabilities using manual research and AI-powered tooling to identify systemic patterns across the security landscape
• Design and implement preventative mechanisms, frameworks, and components that reduce vulnerability recurrence with minimal builder effort
• Develop security dashboards and metrics for teams, leadership, and customers that surface trends, highlight risky concentrations, and track remediation velocity
• Build and mature LLM-based root cause analysis engines to automate pattern detection and deliver recommendations across large datasets
• Partner with AppSec, tooling teams, security reviewers, and business units to ensure solutions are technically effective and practically adopted
• Prioritize work based on impact, targeting business units with the highest volume, severity, or concentration of security findings
• Create paved paths, secure defaults, and reusable components that benefit broad segments of builders across the organization

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level