Security Engineer II, Application Security Automation

Security Engineer II, Application Security Automation

Job ID: 2752146 | Amazon.com Services LLC

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.

Key job responsibilities

1. Develop, curate, and improve application security detections (static and dynamic) to identify vulnerabilities at scale
2. Evaluate and recommend new security testing tools
3. Perform static and dynamic application security assessments to ensure the highest quality standard for our detection rule sets
4. Risk assessment and Threat Modeling
5. Develop, enhance, and interpret security standards and guidance
6. Demonstrate and promote security best practices, drive improvements of Amazon’s overall security architecture

1. 3+ 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
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
3. Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP

1. Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++

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Posted: August 28, 2024