AmazonSecurity Engineer I, AWS Proactive Security Team
Amazon is hiring a Security Engineer I, AWS Proactive Security Team in Seattle, United States. It pays $136k-$184k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this cybersecurity role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions AWS, security engineering and threat modeling among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a junior role.
- Amazon has 21,000+ other open roles on Level.
- Posted within the past week.
AI in this role
Conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability analysis to safeguard applications and infrastructure.
Key job responsibilities
- Analyze software and services to identify security requirements, model threats, and pinpoint potential vulnerabilities across your team's scope of responsibility.
- Conduct security code reviews to evaluate source code for vulnerabilities, weaknesses in implementation, and deviations from secure coding practices, recommending specific remediation strategies.
- Contribute to runbooks, automation scripts, and security tooling that improve your team's ability to detect and respond to security issues at scale.
- Collaborate with development teams and peers to embed security into the software development lifecycle, from design through testing and deployment.
- Communicate security risks clearly in written and verbal form to your team, partner teams, and direct leadership, driving actionable outcomes.
A day in the life
Your morning might start by reviewing the results of a recent security assessment and triaging findings with your team. After standup, you could spend time performing a code review for a partner team's new service, flagging areas where input handling needs strengthening. In the afternoon, you might update a runbook based on lessons learned from a recent incident, or write a script to automate a repetitive security check. You will regularly connect with development engineers and more senior security engineers to discuss design decisions and learn new approaches.
About the team
Our team is focused on reducing security risk across Amazon's products and services, ensuring that customers can trust the systems they interact with every day. We work closely with engineering teams to promote secure development practices and build preventive and detective controls. We value curiosity and continuous learning, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every team member's perspective strengthens our security mission.
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.
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.
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.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll 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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Basic qualifications
-2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship) experience
-Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
-Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
-Experience with web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship)
-Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance
Preferred qualifications
-Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, TX, Austin - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Security Engineer I, AWS Proactive Security Team at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where security engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where threat modeling was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where code review was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where vulnerability assessment was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used AWS in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Security Engineering, Threat Modeling, Code Review, Vulnerability Assessment, and AWS. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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