Security Engineer, Shopping Foundations - Amazon

Description Amazon Mobile Shopping is one of the fastest growing strategic businesses within Amazon. Our scale is billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of users globally. Our team is responsible for ensuring the most secure and private shopping experience for customers, wherever they go, on their favorite devices. We are passionate about building well-designed software that meets the demands of Amazon Mobile Shopping. We constantly improve our technical foundation and user experience. As a Security Engineer on the Mobile Shopping team, you'll have a huge impact on how customers, including friends and family, interact with Amazon. In this role, you will be responsible for assessing code for security issues, and building new frameworks that support our threat modeling and vulnerability management of the Amazon Mobile Shopping app. You will work with Software Development Engineers and Security Engineers in raising the bar of the shopping experience by developing innovative solutions to complicated problems. Successful candidates will possess an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for their work. They will be self-motivated and comfortable setting their own direction in an always-changing and highly-complex environment. The present-day customer is inquisitive about how their data is being used or shared. We want our customers to have visibility and control over how their data gets used, stored, shared, and accessed. Working backwards from the customer, the Amazon Mobile Shopping team raises the bar by building guardrails and mechanisms to mitigate privacy and security risks and enforcing compliance in the Amazon Shopping experience. Key job responsibilities * Independently solve security & privacy problems that require novel methods or approaches * Security architecture and design guidance * Development of security & privacy guardrails and governance tools * Influence your team's and partners' process, priorities, and choices to improve the security posture of Amazon Mobile Shopping * Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects * Adversarial security analysis using cutting-edge tools to augment manual effort * Security training and outreach for internal development teams We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree - 2+ years of mobile application development (Android and/or iOS) and proficient in at least two of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Preferred Qualifications - CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) or CFR (CyberSec First Responder) or Cloud+ or CySA+ (CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst) or GCED (GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender) or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or PenTest- 2+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $135,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.