Security Engineer, Platform Security

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • $159,300 - $202,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Come join Earth’s most customer-centric company! Amazon is looking for a Security Engineer with strong insight and passion for security to ensure our infrastructure is designed and built to the highest standards. You will work in a fast-paced environment to provide security at-scale solutions. A Security Engineer is a leader who is expected to participate in the planning of the work and to seek opportunities for process improvement. The successful candidate is passionate for security and seeks to grow in multiple security domains and is expected to contribute to the efforts to solve complex security problems at Amazon scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
• 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
• Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language (non-internship)
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Knowledge of security technology and concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Single sign-on, Cryptography, etc.)

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience in scripting, programming, or security code reviewing in a common language, such as Python, Java, or C++

Responsibilities

• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
• Develop solutions to detect / prevent security issues at scale
• Development of security automation tools
• Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes
• Demonstrate and promote security best practices, drive improvements of Amazon’s overall security architecture

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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