Sr. Security Engineer

Sr. Security Engineer focuses on the ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence.

What the role involves

• The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence.
• 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.

Skills and requirements

• Experience (non-internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language.
• Experience (non-internship) in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.

Confirmed role details

• Adversarial security analysis using novel 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.

Candidate fit

• technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving

Additional role context

• In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious.