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Security Engineer II, Security Assurance
Amazon
Seattle, WA, USA · Arlington, VA, USA · United States · Texas, USA · Virginia, USA · Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Dec 21, 2024
DESCRIPTION
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:
- A leader on the team who can earn trust with the people they work with, both on their team and external partners
- Methodically empirical and experimental in approach and evaluation without being bound by over paralysis-by-analysis;
- Continuously improve knowledge of the security field, threat landscape, security intelligence, moving proactively toward prevention and detection of threats;
- Be an enthusiastic learner and curiosity seeker, focusing on what can be done rather than hindered by notions of what cannot be;
- Possess effective verbal and written communication skills, be passionate about sharing knowledge, tactics, strategy, as well as advocating for the project mission;
- Have excellent time management skills along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty; and
- 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
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
Development of security automation tools
Adversarial security analysis using cutting-edge tools to augment manual effort
Provide Security training and outreach for internal development teams
Provide Security architecture and design guidance to application development teams
Independently solve systemic, complex security problems that require novel methods or approaches
Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices by using data to improve security outcomes
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.
Working closely with our product teams means that we get to take part in deep technical discussion and decisions. We make sure we have time to get the right training and career growth opportunities so we can Dive Deep and Earn Trust with our build teams.
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.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training and Career growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.