Amazon
Application Security Engineer, AppSec ASSET
$159K–$202K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years programming; 2+ years in each of the specified non-internship scripting/security code review and systems troubleshooting areas. Degree alternative: 2+ years of IT Security experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
About the job
Performs application security reviews and builds security solutions to protect Amazon’s systems, networks, and applications.
What you'll do
- Review and test critical applications and services; provide security guidance to builders.
- Engineer and deliver security improvements and tooling at scale with partner teams.
- Respond to security violations, vulnerabilities, and detections; participate in an on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 3+ years programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or a similar object-oriented language.
- 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience; 2+ years troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks with command-line tools.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP; security vulnerabilities and remediation; and common cloud-hosted services.
Nice to have
- 2+ years in a combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
- Experience with AWS products and services or security activities across the SDLC.
Pay
159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS
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