Sr Application Security Engineer, Application Security EMEA Espinho

Sr Application Security Engineer, Application Security EMEA
Espinho
Espinho, Aveiro District, Portugal

Sr Application Security Engineer, Application Security EMEA

Job ID: 2893664 | Amazon Spain Services, S. L. U.

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.

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 application’s code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or
- 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
- technical audiences alike. Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
2. Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Javascript.
3. Development of security automation tools.
4. Adversarial security analysis using automation to augment manual effort.
5. Security training and outreach for internal development teams.
6. Security architecture and design guidance.
7. Lead execution and definition of security strategy for your team.
8. Mentor and develop teammates both technically and professionally.
9. Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technology to identify and mitigate complex risks.
10. Effectively navigate novel situations and problems that do not have a defined solution.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Computer Science, Information Security, Extensive
  - 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
  - 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.

Posted: February 6, 2025 (Updated 1 day ago)