Amazon
Security Engineer, Specialized Business Services Cryptography
$159K–$213K
Sunnyvale, CA +3 · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY
Herndon, VA - Experience
- 3+ years in several required areas; the education qualification allows 3+ years of IT Security experience as an alternative to a STEM bachelor's degree. Preferred qualifications include 2+ years in listed security or software areas and 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 3+ years of IT Security experience. Preferred: Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Designs, analyzes, implements, and reviews cryptographic solutions for Amazon Specialized Business devices and cloud services, while advising and training development teams.
What you'll do
- Translate business and functional requirements into technical specifications and design cryptographic solutions.
- Collaborate with software engineers to implement high-quality, testable, and maintainable cryptographic systems.
- Provide cryptography expertise through design reviews, technical guidance, and training for builders.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship).
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 3+ years of IT Security experience.
- 3+ years of non-internship professional experience developing cryptographic solutions.
- 3+ years leading design or architecture and implementation of systems using cryptographic algorithms, public-key infrastructure and hardware security modules; and 3+ years of threat modeling for cryptographic solutions.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS products and services.
- Familiarity with post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and public key cryptography; experience developing security protocols from public standards and/or academic papers.
Pay
USD 166,600.00 - 212,800.00 annually (base salary); USD 159,300.00 - 212,800.00 annually (base salary); USD 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 annually (base salary); USD 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
cryptographic algorithms, public-key infrastructure, hardware security modules, AWS products and services, post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, public key cryptography
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