Amazon
Security Engineer II, Stores AppSec
$159K–$213K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years programming; 2+ years each in security code review/programming and systems troubleshooting (non-internship). 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
Conduct application security reviews and penetration tests of Amazon services, applications, and websites, then document findings and drive remediation with partner teams.
What you'll do
- Independently or collaboratively perform application security reviews and penetration tests.
- Create engagement plans and document security findings, gaps, and remediation recommendations.
- Improve team tooling and work with partner teams and leaders to prioritize and resolve findings.
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 of non-internship 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 and security vulnerabilities and remediation.
Nice to have
- 2+ years in any 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 software development lifecycle phases.
Pay
159,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS
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