Description

Amazon is seeking qualified Application Security (AppSec) Engineers to join our innovative, high energy Amazon Payments India Security team and work within the Consumer Stores Security organization. Amazon Payments processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Paramount to our success is ensuring that our customer data is secure.

As an application security engineer within India Payments Security, you will partner with engineering teams in a consulting facility throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), to ensure that applications are designed and built securely. You will identify potential vulnerabilities in the applications and enable developers to understand and remediate such identified vulnerabilities.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop a broad and deep technical understanding of products, services and architectures pertaining to the India Payments organization.

• Leverage this understanding to conduct architecture reviews, threat modelling and manual code reviews on web applications, mobile applications and other relevant services.

• Interpret security tools and penetration testing results to stakeholders, providing advice on vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation.

• Create relevant documentation and metrics to your stakeholders and business leaders and deliver these in a clear, concise manner.

• Research and maintain proficiency in attacker Tools, Techniques, Procedures and other security topics.

• Propose and develop training materials to help raise the security bar across the India Payments Security organization.

• Develop innovative and scalable tools, solutions, and processes to enhance the India Payments Security’s operations.

About the team

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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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.

Mentorship and 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.

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

Bengaluru, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP

• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience

• Experience with AWS products and services

• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++