Security Engineer, SDO AppSec

Job :  | Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. The Application Security team works with builders to provide secure experiences and constantly learns new technologies. We are looking for an experienced application security engineer who can prioritize, communicate clearly, maintain focus and ownership, especially in cloud computing.

• Application security reviews
• Secure architecture design
• Threat modeling
• Projects and research work as needed
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams
• Automating and enhancing security review processes using AI agents, LLMs, and generative AI tooling
• Security guidance documentation
• Security metrics delivery and improvements
• Assistance with recruiting activities

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object‑oriented language
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience in any combination of application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, secure infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls, threat modeling, cryptography, threat intelligence, or secure software development
• AI/LLM-based automation of security workflows

• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience with any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security

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