Amazon
Security Engineer , Ads Security
$159K–$213K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of programming; 2+ years in each of the other specified areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Conduct security assessments and develop tools to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in Amazon Ads applications and infrastructure, working with product and engineering teams to improve security.
What you'll do
- Conduct threat modeling, code reviews, and penetration testing; identify vulnerabilities and recommend actionable fixes.
- Contribute to security automation and detection tools that help teams prevent vulnerabilities and misconfigurations at scale.
- Advise and collaborate with product and engineering teams on secure design, remediation priorities, and security initiatives.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or a similar object-oriented language.
- 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship).
- 2+ years troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command-line tools (non-internship).
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
Nice to have
- 2+ years of any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security.
- Knowledge of HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP; experience with AWS products and services or security activities across the software development lifecycle.
Pay
159,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS
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