Amazon
Sr. Security Engineer, AppSec - Amazon Stores Security
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years, 5+ years, and 8+ years as specified in the requirements; also requires industry-based security experience, with no duration stated.
About the job
Secures Amazon Stores software by reviewing code, modeling threats, developing security tools, and guiding teams toward secure designs and practices.
What you'll do
- Create and maintain threat models; conduct manual and automated secure code reviews and adversarial security analysis.
- Develop security automation tools and provide security architecture, design guidance, and training to development teams.
- Solve novel security problems and influence partner processes, priorities, and decisions.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
- 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 4+ years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review; knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
- 8+ years of Application Security or Development experience; industry-based security vulnerability identification, attack patterns, and remediation experience; experience in at least one listed security domain.
Nice to have
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.
- One or more listed certifications: CCSP, CEH, CFR, Cloud+, CySA+, GCED, GICSP, or PenTest+.
Pay
178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, JavaScript, Scala, C/C++, Go
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