Amazon Senior Security Engineer AWS Proactive 

United States, New York, New York 

373791832

You will use your security expertise to define new tooling domains and building new security focused products within AWS Security. You will collaborate with Builders, Security Analysts and Applied Scientists to drive security improvements. The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, you will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise. You will communicate risks across the business to both technical and non-technical audiences, and effectively harmonize disparate opinions while reducing risk.
Key job responsibilities
* Research, identify, and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation.
* Effectively drive conversations with Principal Engineers, Directors and VPs to influence business investments and prioritize risks.
* Develop detection prototypes for these security problems to enhance our tool-set for static, dynamic or network analysis. Provide security architecture and design guidance and develop security automation tools.
* Work with Builders and service teams to address detected security issues in an appropriate and timely fashion.
* Identify opportunities to prevent security issues at scale.
* Document and provide security guidance that will be used across AWS services.
* Deliver metrics to show effectiveness of our security initiatives.
* Mentor and develop teammates both technically and professionally.
* Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technology to research, identify, and mitigate complex risks.
* Effectively navigate novel situations and problems that do not have a defined solution.A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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- BS in Computer Science, Information Security or equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with any combination of the following: mobile security, threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
- Knowledge and understanding of security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, or application security
- An understanding of network and web related protocols (such as, TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols)
- Experience with multiple programming languages (such as, Java, C++, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc.)