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Security Engineer, Application Security, Games, Media and Entertainment Security
Amazon.comUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Sept 2023
💰 $212,800/yr($135,500/yr – $212,800/yr)
About the role
We are changing the way millions of customers interact with entertainment that enriches lives. Amazon Games, Media and Entertainment delivers experiences at unparalleled scale. Whether it's launching our own studio to create original and exclusive content, or connecting players and developers to the games and communities they love, Amazon Games, Media and Entertainment Security is at the center of customer, builder and content journeys. Our vision is to be the most loved and trusted entertainment service by empowering the business with innovative security solutions that complement our creative workforce without restricting our ability to deliver a seamless customer experience.
Key job responsibilities
As a successful Application Security Engineer within Games, Media and Entertainment Security, you will be seen as a leader and play a key role in ensuring security is built into our applications and services and partnering with development teams to maintain a high security bar. You will collaborate with security champions within our engineering teams to drive the implementation and validation of security controls prior to production launch. You will:
* Participate in and support application security reviews that include threat modeling, code review, and security testing.
* Provide durable, technical security guidance to mitigate identified risks.
* Review existing processes and suggest improvements for increased security and efficiency.
* Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
* Build Security metrics to track the effectiveness of our security excellence programs and to influence your team's and partner's process, priorities and choices to improve outcomes
* Mentor and guide security champions embedded throughout the engineering team
A day in the life
As a successful Security Engineer, Application Security within Games, Media and Entertainment Security, you will be seen as a strong leader who prioritizes well, communicates clearly and compellingly understands how to drive a high level of operational and strategic excellence within a team, while collaborating with a variety of internal and external business partners. You must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short- versus long-term security and business goals. A successful candidate must be one that can handle several difficult challenges and problems, can make risk-based assessments founded on data and facts rather than older static based security paradigms, though being aware of the older best practices.
About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Denver, CO, USA
* Experience managing large cross-functional security efforts, resulting in delivery of significant security improvements within highly complex systems.
* Experience in three of the following areas: edge and delivery security (DDoS, CDNs, etc.), mobile applications, device security, threat modeling, authentication, web and network protocols, data structures and algorithms, application security, code reviews, software development, penetration tests, or vulnerability assessments
* Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate clearly and effectively with developers, product managers, and senior business leaders with security metrics to influence decisions.
* Are comfortable managing towards metrics that measure service and program effectiveness and consistency.
* Possess self-drive to keep moving things forward even in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge
* Excellent executive communications or technical writing; clear, concise, and thorough written and oral communication skills.
* Demonstrable teamwork skills and resourcefulness.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pa
Key job responsibilities
As a successful Application Security Engineer within Games, Media and Entertainment Security, you will be seen as a leader and play a key role in ensuring security is built into our applications and services and partnering with development teams to maintain a high security bar. You will collaborate with security champions within our engineering teams to drive the implementation and validation of security controls prior to production launch. You will:
* Participate in and support application security reviews that include threat modeling, code review, and security testing.
* Provide durable, technical security guidance to mitigate identified risks.
* Review existing processes and suggest improvements for increased security and efficiency.
* Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
* Build Security metrics to track the effectiveness of our security excellence programs and to influence your team's and partner's process, priorities and choices to improve outcomes
* Mentor and guide security champions embedded throughout the engineering team
A day in the life
As a successful Security Engineer, Application Security within Games, Media and Entertainment Security, you will be seen as a strong leader who prioritizes well, communicates clearly and compellingly understands how to drive a high level of operational and strategic excellence within a team, while collaborating with a variety of internal and external business partners. You must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short- versus long-term security and business goals. A successful candidate must be one that can handle several difficult challenges and problems, can make risk-based assessments founded on data and facts rather than older static based security paradigms, though being aware of the older best practices.
About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Denver, CO, USA
Basic Qualifications
* Experience managing large cross-functional security efforts, resulting in delivery of significant security improvements within highly complex systems.
* Experience in three of the following areas: edge and delivery security (DDoS, CDNs, etc.), mobile applications, device security, threat modeling, authentication, web and network protocols, data structures and algorithms, application security, code reviews, software development, penetration tests, or vulnerability assessments
* Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate clearly and effectively with developers, product managers, and senior business leaders with security metrics to influence decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
* Are comfortable making decisions on behalf of and in support of highly technical project teams.* Are comfortable managing towards metrics that measure service and program effectiveness and consistency.
* Possess self-drive to keep moving things forward even in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge
* Excellent executive communications or technical writing; clear, concise, and thorough written and oral communication skills.
* Demonstrable teamwork skills and resourcefulness.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pa
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