In Amazon Stores, we develop and operate some of the most diverse and high-scale technologies in the world—from Amazon.com’s global retail platform to advanced machine learning systems and next-generation retail experiences. With the scale and innovation we drive comes the responsibility to build secure systems from the ground up.
We are seeking a Security Engineer to join the AppSec organization and support Application Ranking AppRank (application criticality measurement)—a critical initiative to identify Amazon's most critical applications and critieria. In this role, you will leverage your application architecture excellence to engineer scalable, innovative solutions to assess application criticality criteria for the identification of systemic patterns across business units. Your work will directly impact the security posture of Amazon's most strategic lines of business.
You will collaborate closely with software engineering teams, product managers, and security leadership to ensure the most critical applications are identified early in the software development lifecycle at scale. One day you might be building a tool to classify applications with AI; the next, working with a specialized business unit to analyze the application ecosystem architectures to identify systemic criticality criteria.
The ideal candidate blends strong technical execution with security intuition, and thrives in environments where they can influence, automate, and scale security impact. You should be comfortable translating complex application architecture into actionable insights and driving adoption of security best practices across a large and distributed engineering organization.
At Amazon, we invest in our people and empower our teams to focus on high-leverage work over reactive tasks. Join us to work on some of the most innovative and impactful security challenges in the industry—and help keep our customers safe by preventing security issues before they happen.
Key job responsibilities
Engineer AI-driven solutions to assess and classify security findings across business units
Identify root causes of recurring vulnerabilities and develop systemic remediation strategies
Design and build internal tools to analyze patterns in security findings and prevent recurrence
Collaborate with application teams to implement preventative security controls earlier in the development lifecycle
Develop automated workflows to integrate security insights into developer pipelines
Perform targeted code reviews and static/dynamic analysis to validate findings and guide mitigations
Contribute to the creation of security dashboards and metrics for visibility into finding trends and remediation velocity
Partner with security leadership and engineering stakeholders to define and prioritize high-impact prevention efforts
Investigate and eradicate classes of vulnerabilities through scalable solutions
Guide teams through remediations by providing technical mentorship and secure design best practices
Maintain deep awareness of emerging threats, and proactively adapt tooling and processes to address them
About the team
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Diverse Experiences
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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.
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#JoinStoresAppSec- 3+ year's experience in Application Security
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of security engineering, system and network security, authentication an security protocols, cryptography, or application security.
- Experience reading and writing in at least one programming language
- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, similar technology degrees or 5+ years' equivalent technology experience- 2+ Experience in the Application Security domain
- Development experience in Python and/or Java.
- Secure software development lifecycle experience.
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