Senior Security Engineer, HealthCare Security - Austin, United States - Amazon

Description

At Amazon Healthcare Security, we are on a mission to make healthcare secure and easy. We are developing a patient-centric healthcare experience that is personal, transparent, and convenient. We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our team.

As a Senior Security Engineer, your responsibility is to ensure the data, devices, 3rd Party services, and systems are secure, resilient, and compliant. Your teammates are a global team of security engineers, software developers, and technical program managers dedicated to continuously raising the security bar.

A Senior Security Engineer in Amazon will be strong in multiple security domains and sought out for advice on technical issues. Efficient time management skills are required along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty. Engineers in this role must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals. They must also demonstrate resilience and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact. The successful candidate must be one that can handle several difficult challenges and problems, can make risk-based assessments founded on data and facts.

Additionally, the successful candidate will be:

A leader on the team who can earn trust with the people they work with, both on their team and external partners

Methodically empirical and experimental in approach and evaluation without being bound by over paralysis-by-analysis;

Continuously improve knowledge of the security field, threat landscape, security intelligence, moving proactively toward prevention and detection of threats;

Be an enthusiastic learner and curiosity seeker, focusing on what can be done rather than hindered by notions of what cannot be;

Possess effective verbal and written communication skills, be passionate about sharing knowledge, tactics, strategy, as well as advocating for the project mission;

Have excellent time management skills along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty; and

Evangelize security within and be an advocate for customer trust.

A successful candidate will be a deeply curious individual who brings technical expertise, and ability to work within a fast-paced startup culture in a large company that has broad business impact.

Key job responsibilities

Lead other Security Engineers to improve and deliver great outcomes across the organization

Act as the primary security point of contact for builder teams; understand their roadmaps, be an advocate for security, and balance security with delivery

Raise the security bar through secure design, architecture, and code reviews with developers.

Act as a consultant and trusted resource on secure development and implementation practices, and secure-by-default opportunities.

Identify opportunities to improve developer velocity and program efficiency while maintaining our high security and privacy standards.

Collaborate on solutions that automate Application Security processes and improve security-at-scale.

Collaborate with Principal Security Engineers to develop products and processes that support the team in delivering consistently bar-raising and customer-centric Application Security services.

Period on-call responsibilities, and occasional travel as required.

Work closely with service teams to identify threats and vulnerabilities throughout Software Development - Life Cycle and provide guidance on mitigating the issues.

Identify and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation.

Work with builders and service teams to address detected security problems in an appropriate and timely fashion.

Document and provide security guidance that will be used across Amazon Security

Deliver metrics to show effectiveness of our security initiatives.

About the team

The Amazon HealthSec ProdSec team is tasks with enabling the business to build secure, trustworthy software that delights our customers to use. We work closely with the business throughout the development process to help ensure great security decisions are made early and often. This allows us to be a partner with the business so security tradeoffs are infrequent.

Working closely with our product teams means that we get to take part in deep technical discussion and decisions. We make sure we have time to get the right training and career growth opportunities so we can Dive Deep and Earn Trust with our build teams.

We believe the best employees are ones who find what they do impactful, enjoyable, and purposeful. To that end we value training, career development, team culture, and work life balance for the long run. We want to make strategic choices for our team that will help build a culture of diversity, inclusion, development, and trust so our team works well together for a long time.

ABOUT AmSec:

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont 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 Amazons 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.

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, theres nothing we cant achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, its 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 and Career growth

Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

Bachelors degree in computer science or related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience

7+ years of experience in security, with at least 2 years in a senior or above position leading others

5+ years working with Security testing tools

3+ years of hands-on experience with programming or scripting languages

Preferred Qualifications

Strong ability to review code for security defects

Strong ability to find security defects through testing

Strong verbal and written communications skills

Experience enabling developers to deliver faster results through paved paths, secure defaults, and secure configuration

Experience working with different teams

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

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.