Amazon Security Engineer AppSec ASSET 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

680865054

Key job responsibilities
• Act as the escalation point-of-contact to our internal Amazon customers seeking technical guidance and support in securing applications.
• Be the technical lead to junior security engineers
• Research, develop, and maintain customer-facing documentation, internal runbooks, and Application Security metrics.
• Triage and resolve incoming security support requests, assessing if additional information or escalation is required.
• Leverage scripting and automation skills (Python/AWS) to improve efficiency of organizational processes and tooling.
• Analyze customer feedback to identify trends and determine opportunities for process improvement.
• Perform security review tasks, such as threat modeling, code reviews, architecture diagrams, audits, etc.A day in the life
• Respond to our support ticket queues
• Provide deep dive consultations and security guidance to Amazon builders, security certifiers and partner teams
• Identify and take ownership of systemic issues
• Perform security reviews and review audits of Amazon builder applications
• Develop and improve tools and services to optimize operations and raise the security bar

- Experience in one or more of the following domains: access- control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security
- Experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Python, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Knowledge of internet fundamentals and cloud computing concepts

- Knowledge of system, network and OS
- Knowledge of databases, storage and big data concepts