The Security Engineer role at Amazon Stores focuses on enhancing application security by developing innovative solutions to assess application criticality. The position involves collaborating with software engineering teams and security leadership to identify and mitigate security risks early in the software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will blend technical skills with security intuition to influence and automate security practices across a large organization. This role offers the opportunity to work on impactful security challenges that protect Amazon's customers.

• 3+ years of programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, or similar object-oriented languages.
• 2+ years of experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command line tools.
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language.
• 4+ years of experience in application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with AWS products and services.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP.

• Engineer AI-driven solutions to assess and classify security findings across business units.
• Identify root causes of recurring vulnerabilities and develop systemic remediation strategies.
• Design and build internal tools to analyze patterns in security findings and prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with application teams to implement preventative security controls earlier in the development lifecycle.
• Develop automated workflows to integrate security insights into developer pipelines.
• Perform targeted code reviews and static/dynamic analysis to validate findings and guide mitigations.
• Contribute to the creation of security dashboards and metrics for visibility into finding trends and remediation velocity.
• Partner with security leadership and engineering stakeholders to define and prioritize high-impact prevention efforts.
• Investigate and eradicate classes of vulnerabilities through scalable solutions.
• Guide teams through remediations by providing technical mentorship and secure design best practices.
• Maintain deep awareness of emerging threats and proactively adapt tooling and processes to address them.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.