Security Engineer II, HealthCare Security

Security Engineer II, HealthCare Security

Job ID: 2796128 | Amazon.com Services LLC

At Amazon Healthcare Security, we are on a mission to make healthcare secure and easy. We are developing a patient-centric healthcare experience that is personal, transparent, and convenient. We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our team.

As a Security Engineer, your responsibility is to ensure the data, devices, 3rd Party services, and systems are secure, resilient, and compliant. Your teammates are a global team of security engineers, software developers, and technical program managers dedicated to continuously raising the security bar.

A Security Engineer in Amazon will be strong in multiple security domains and sought out for advice on technical issues. Efficient time management skills are required along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty. Engineers in this role must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals. They must also demonstrate resilience and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact. The successful candidate must be one that can handle several difficult challenges and problems, can make risk-based assessments founded on data and facts.

Additionally, the successful candidate will be:

1. A leader on the team who can earn trust with the people they work with, both on their team and external partners.
2. Methodically empirical and experimental in approach and evaluation without being bound by over paralysis-by-analysis.
3. Continuously improve knowledge of the security field, threat landscape, security intelligence, moving proactively toward prevention and detection of threats.
4. Be an enthusiastic learner and curiosity seeker, focusing on what can be done rather than hindered by notions of what cannot be.
5. Possess effective verbal and written communication skills, be passionate about sharing knowledge, tactics, strategy, as well as advocating for the project mission.
6. Have excellent time management skills along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty.
7. Evangelize security within Amazon.com and be an advocate for customer trust.

A successful candidate will be a deeply curious individual who brings technical expertise, and ability to work within a fast-paced startup culture in a large company that has broad business impact.

Key job responsibilities

1. Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
2. Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Javascript.
3. Development of security automation tools.
4. Adversarial security analysis using cutting-edge tools to augment manual effort.
5. Provide Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
6. Provide Security architecture and design guidance to application development teams.
7. Independently solve systemic, complex security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
8. Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices by using data to improve security outcomes.
9. Provide technical and strategic guidance to senior leaders and stakeholders through effective oral and written communications.

A day in the life
As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with application development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing novel services. In a given 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. The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security specialist with one or more areas of deep expertise within application security. They will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.

About the team

The Amazon HealthSec ProdSec team is tasked with enabling the business to build secure, trustworthy healthcare products and services. We work closely with the business throughout the development process to help ensure great security decisions are made early and often. This allows us to be a partner with the business so security tradeoffs are infrequent.

We believe the best employees are ones who find what they do impactful, enjoyable, and purposeful. To that end we value training, career development, team culture, and work life balance for the long run. We want to make strategic choices for our team that will help build a culture of diversity, inclusion, development, and trust so our team works well together for a long time.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
2. 5+ 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.
3. Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
4. Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent.
5. Experience reading and writing in at least one programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Strong ability to review code for security defects.
2. Strong ability to find security defects through testing.
3. Strong verbal and written communications skills.
4. Experience enabling developers to deliver faster results through paved paths, secure defaults, and secure configuration.
5. Experience working with different teams.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.