Amazon
Security Engineer II, Stores Application Security
$159K–$213K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of programming; preferred qualification also asks for 3+ years in a combination of specified security and software fields.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or experience in IT Security.
About the job
Secures Amazon Stores applications by assessing risks, conducting code reviews, and helping development teams adopt security controls and tools.
What you'll do
- Define and implement security controls, guardrails, and monitoring for critical applications.
- Review code and conduct threat modeling and adversarial security analysis; identify and mitigate security risks.
- Guide development teams, maintain security documentation, and support security incident investigations.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or a similar object-oriented language.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or experience in IT Security.
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP, and of security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
- Experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks with command-line tools; ability to explain technical risks clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS products and services.
- 3+ years in any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security.
Pay
159,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS
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