APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEER, BARCELONA

Application Security Engineer
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.

In Amazon Stores, we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From Amazon.
com 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 Senior Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. In 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 expertise. In 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

- 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 automation to augment manual effort.

- Security training and outreach for internal development teams.

- Security architecture and design guidance.

- Lead execution and definition of security strategy for your team.

- Mentor and develop teammates both technically and professionally.

- Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technology to identify and mitigate complex risks.

- Effectively navigate novel situations and problems that do not have a defined solution.

About the team

About Amazon Security

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

Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- BS in Computer Science, Information Security, Extensive hands on experience and expertise in areas such as application security, offensive security and/or systems security.

- Understanding of threat modeling, manual source code review, security vulnerabilities, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for their remediation.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt messaging to executive, technical, and non-technical audiences.

- Ability to drive multiple technically complex security reviews together while remaining effective at providing security guidance to stakeholders and - ability to work with a high degree of autonomy.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Demonstrate excellent judgement in assessing and prioritizing technical risk.

- Strong application security background with a focus on scalable solutions.

- Experience in building and securing complex AWS architecture.

- Ability to identify and remove bottlenecks for your teammates, both in process and technology.

- Innovate to raise the security standards and efficiency.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

Java, Python Javascript

Java, Python Javascript