Amazon
Security Engineer II, Stores Application Security, SDO AppSec, Stores Security
$159K–$213K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years programming; preferred qualification also specifies 3+ years across a listed combination of security and software areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or experience in IT Security.
About the job
Secures Amazon Stores’ critical Ring 0 applications by assessing risks, building security controls and tools, and guiding development teams toward secure software practices.
What you'll do
- Design and drive security controls, guardrails, and tooling for Ring 0 applications, including code scanning and automated threat modeling.
- Review code and conduct security assessments; identify risks and drive their mitigation.
- Partner with development teams, communicate security guidance, maintain documentation, and support 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 using 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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