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Mobile Security Engineer, MobileSec
Amazon.comUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Apr 2024
💰 $212,800/yr($135,500/yr – $212,800/yr)
About the role
Come join Earth’s most customer-centric company! Amazon is looking for a Mobile Security Engineer with strong insight and passion for security to ensure our mobile applications are designed and built to the highest standards. Your mission is to secure the mobile experiences of hundreds of millions of our customers. You bring mobile security talent and expertise to a fast-paced environment where you will be relied upon to partner with our talented software development teams in building secure mobile applications.
As a Mobile Security Engineer, you’ll be a technical leader within a highly skilled team, focusing on elevating Amazon’s mobile application security portfolio. Your role involves closely collaborating with software development teams to ensure the safety of our customers as we develop innovative apps. Daily tasks may include examining app code for security improvements, devising new frameworks to aid our developers in creating faster and more secure software, or adjusting the design of a new app in partnership with its developers. Your efforts will play a crucial role in implementing processes that enhance the security of our mobile applications through research, security bug analysis, risk assessments, automation development, documentation, and crafting tools and solutions for security enhancement and risk mitigation.
Key job responsibilities
* You will create, update, and maintain threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
* You will perform manual and automated code review, primarily in Java, Objective-C, Swift and Kotlin.
* You will develop mobile security automation tools.
* You will perform mobile security training and outreach for internal development teams.
* You will provide mobile security architecture and design guidance.
* You will independently solve mobile security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
* You will influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes.
About the team
The MobileSec team is tasked with empowering the business to create secure, trustworthy mobile applications that our customers find delightful to use. We engage closely with the business from the outset of the development process to ensure that security considerations are integrated early and consistently. This collaborative approach positions us as partners with the business, minimizing the need for security trade-offs. Our close work with product teams allows us to participate in deep technical discussions and decisions. We prioritize obtaining the right training and career growth opportunities, enabling us to Dive Deep and Earn Trust with our development teams.
About Amazon Security
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Minimum of 2+ years of experience with at least one of the following: mobile application security, threat modeling, secure coding, software development, and p
As a Mobile Security Engineer, you’ll be a technical leader within a highly skilled team, focusing on elevating Amazon’s mobile application security portfolio. Your role involves closely collaborating with software development teams to ensure the safety of our customers as we develop innovative apps. Daily tasks may include examining app code for security improvements, devising new frameworks to aid our developers in creating faster and more secure software, or adjusting the design of a new app in partnership with its developers. Your efforts will play a crucial role in implementing processes that enhance the security of our mobile applications through research, security bug analysis, risk assessments, automation development, documentation, and crafting tools and solutions for security enhancement and risk mitigation.
Key job responsibilities
* You will create, update, and maintain threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
* You will perform manual and automated code review, primarily in Java, Objective-C, Swift and Kotlin.
* You will develop mobile security automation tools.
* You will perform mobile security training and outreach for internal development teams.
* You will provide mobile security architecture and design guidance.
* You will independently solve mobile security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
* You will influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes.
About the team
The MobileSec team is tasked with empowering the business to create secure, trustworthy mobile applications that our customers find delightful to use. We engage closely with the business from the outset of the development process to ensure that security considerations are integrated early and consistently. This collaborative approach positions us as partners with the business, minimizing the need for security trade-offs. Our close work with product teams allows us to participate in deep technical discussions and decisions. We prioritize obtaining the right training and career growth opportunities, enabling us to Dive Deep and Earn Trust with our development teams.
About Amazon Security
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Minimum of 2+ years of experience with at least one of the following: mobile application security, threat modeling, secure coding, software development, and p
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