Security code review jobs

Design and validate security controls, conduct threat modeling, and drive risk mitigation strategies to protect Amazon's products, services, and customers.

Compensation

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. USA, VA, Arlington - 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually

Responsibilities

Lead security reviews, threat modeling, and architecture assessments for complex systems, identifying risks and guiding teams toward pragmatic, scalable mitigations.
Design and build security frameworks, runbooks, and rubrics for emerging problem domains, enabling repeatable and consistent security outcomes across multiple teams.
Partner with product and system owners to proactively design, implement, and validate security controls, ensuring solutions are extensible and have low adoption costs.
Evaluate source code and system designs to identify vulnerabilities, recommend remediation strategies, and set a culture of secure engineering best practices including authentication, authorization, and least-privilege principles.
Communicate security risk and design decisions clearly in writing to both technical and non-technical audiences, and mentor other engineers to raise the security bar across the organization.

Requirements

Nice to have: Threat modeling
Nice to have: Risk identification techniques
Nice to have: Security in service-oriented architectures/microservices
Nice to have: Security in web services

Skills

Troubleshooting systems issues Analyzing logs Automating complex tasks using command line tools Scripting Programming Security code review Vulnerability identification Attack patterns Remediation techniques Scala Java Python C/C++Go

Benefits

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

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