DESCRIPTION

Do you like working through abstract problems to implement creative solutions? Do you like to blend your day with both big and small issues? How does working across a variety of Amazon’s biggest teams sound?

In the Application Security Testing and Intelligence Automation team, our mission is to build actionable intelligence to proactively secure application resources across all Amazon. We help our builder teams resolve issues before promoting code to production. We seek to automate difficult to identify patterns, and work with teams to make remediation fast and accurate. Our team knows few boundaries and is willing to go to any length to solve big issues.

As a member of our team, you will bring your expertise and attention to detail to define strategies and tactics that drive security and efficiency across all areas. You will work independently, but as part of the larger group you are never alone. You will define guidance and remediation for our vast engineering community to implement. You will help raise the security bar across many of your favorite businesses. If you want to be apart of this fast paced, challenge driven team apply below. You will fearlessly drive Amazon’s security bar and high standards.


Key job responsibilities
• Develop, curate, and improve highly scalable application security rules to identify coding and configuration flaws
• Evaluate and recommend new security testing tools
• Deep dive code and research application frameworks to identify weaknesses and detection opportunities
• Leverage application system telemetry to extract insights and identify vulnerabilities
• Develop, enhance, and interpret security standards and guidance
• Demonstrate and promote security best practices, drive improvements of Amazon’s overall security architecture


About the team
About Amazon Security

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.