Security Engineer, Amazon

Application Security Automation

$136-212.8k

Python
Java
C++
Mid and Senior level
Austin
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

$136-212.8k

Python
Java
C++
Mid and Senior level
Austin
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • 4+ 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
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP

Desirable

  • Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++

What the job involves

  • As a member of the Application Security Automation team, you will help provide automated security testing (SAST/DAST) solutions for all of Amazon
  • Our team’s goal is to empower both development and security teams with accurate security detections at the highest standards of quality in order to identify and eliminate risk across Amazon’s application portfolio
  • You will be responsible for performing security assessments and delivering new security detection rules to enhance our existing testing capabilities
  • This role will routinely challenge your technical background and critical thinking
  • You will be expected to collaborate with our team’s stakeholders in a fast-paced environment across many technology stacks and services to deliver scalable solutions
  • Develop, curate, and improve application security detections (static and dynamic) to identify vulnerabilities at scale
  • Evaluate and recommend new security testing tools
  • Perform static and dynamic application security assessments to ensure the highest quality standard for our detection rule sets
  • Risk assessment and Threat Modeling
  • Develop, enhance, and interpret security standards and guidance
  • Demonstrate and promote security best practices, drive improvements of Amazon’s overall security architecture
  • Amazon is continuously innovating new services and features for customers. To keep up with that innovation, Amazon Scanners team raise the bar for application security by identifying as many vulnerabilities through automated static and dynamic application testing (SAST & DAST) tools
  • Empower builders and development teams with security detections at the highest standards of quality
  • Drive efficiencies at scale through thoughtful but deliberate automation that raises the security bar and eliminates vulnerability classes
  • Provide innovative solutions to maintain pace with emerging technologies
  • Partner with other security teams, engineers, builders, and security practitioners to improve security
  • Provide transparency in decision making and lead by example
  • 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

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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