Sr Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security

Corporate Services Security (CPSS) is the Amazon security team aligned with Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), People eXperience & Technology (PXT), Legal and Global Communications and Community Impact (GCCI) business units.

Our Mission is to protect and safeguard Amazon's corporate services, systems, and data. Through proactive engagement with the development teams, we understand the dynamic business processes that run Amazon, and enable our stakeholders to innovate, build, and scale securely. The Corporate Services Security (CPSS) Security for Employee and Legal Systems (SEALS) team protects Amazon's enterprise HR and Legal applications, ensuring they meet the high security standards.

You'll elevate our security strategy through broad leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery of high-quality results that push us to continuously improve for our customers. Ideal candidates will have an established background in threat modeling, architecture reviews, scanning and assessments, and remediation/mitigation approaches. You will understand AI application security threats and embrace AI to scale delivery. Key job responsibilities
- Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of web applications hosted on cloud
- Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Java script
- Development of security automation tools
- Adversarial security analysis using the latest 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, strategy and choices by using data to improve security outcomes
- Provide technical and strategic guidance to senior leaders and stakeholders through effective oral and written communicationsA day in the life

As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software 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.

They will shape the strategy of the Product Security Team and influence systemic security improvements across our service organizations. They will guide and mentor other engineers on the team.

About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

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