Security Engineer II, LOAF Lifecycle of A Finding

In Amazon Stores we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From to world class machine learning pipelines from digital healthcare to no-checkout retail we push the boundaries of technology in every direction using the globes largest AWS deployment.

As a Security Engineer you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel a given day you might be inspecting an applications 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 alongside its software developers.

The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep their communication they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Interpersonally successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.

Our organization prizes its employees and we show it through investing in work-life
harmony. We have dedicated resources that consistently innovate in reducing on-
call time and ensuring the team spend their time on the highest-value tasks. Join the stores AppSec organization to work hard have fun and make history!

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build scalable systems that detect classify and prevent security escapes across all of Amazon
- Develop and extend LOAFs neural network-powered detection capabilities improving precision and coverage across vulnerability classes
- Architect shift-left tooling that integrates directly into developer workflows catching vulnerabilities before they reach production
- Own critical components of LOAFs platform end-to-end from design through deployment and operational excellence
- Partner with security teams across Amazon to understand escape patterns and translate them into automated detection and prevention mechanisms
- Build APIs and integrations that enable engineering teams across the company to consume LOAFs unified escape data and prevention tooling
- Define and instrument metrics that measure real reduction in escape volume using data to prioritize engineering investment
- Investigate novel vulnerability patterns and prototype detection approaches that expand LOAFs coverage to new escape classes


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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont 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 Amazons 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.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its 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 & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
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- 3 years of programming in Python Ruby Go Swift C or similar object oriented language experience
- 2 years of scripting programming and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
- 2 years of troubleshooting systems issues analyzing logs or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP DNS and TCP/IP
- 4 years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks identity and access controls incident response mobile security cloud computing and security AI security threat intelligence and penetration testing experience
- Knowledge of one or more of the following domains: access-control system and methodology network security application- and system-development security security architecture and models cryptography and operations security

- 2 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 years of scripting programming or security code review in a common language such as Python Java or C experience
- Experience with AWS products and services

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