Amazon
Application Security Engineer, SDO AppSec EMEA
Amazon, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Application Security Engineer, SDO AppSec EMEA
Job ID: 3156216 | Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited
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.
As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. In a typical 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 alongside its software developers.
The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise. In communication, they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non‑technical audiences alike. Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while prioritizing risks to guide partners toward secure solutions.
Key job responsibilities
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.
Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
Security architecture and design guidance.
Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes.
Basic Qualifications
Experience with any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.
Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Information security professional certification.
Experience with AWS products and services.
Knowledge of penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Inclusive culture: Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed, we encourage candidates to apply. We offer flexibility and support throughout the hiring process, including accommodations for disabilities.
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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.
As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. In a typical 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 alongside its software developers.
The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise. In communication, they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non‑technical audiences alike. Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while prioritizing risks to guide partners toward secure solutions.
Key job responsibilities
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.
Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
Security architecture and design guidance.
Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes.
Basic Qualifications
Experience with any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.
Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Information security professional certification.
Experience with AWS products and services.
Knowledge of penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Inclusive culture: Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed, we encourage candidates to apply. We offer flexibility and support throughout the hiring process, including accommodations for disabilities.
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