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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Security Engineer, ATG Security - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $178,400 - $226,700 - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Software System Penetration Testing, Cloud Computing Security, Code Review, Cyber Security, Computer Programming, Service-Oriented Architecture, Mobile Security, Web Services, Scripting, Software Security, Programming Languages, Microservices - **Published:** November 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/0D485F06927242B5A9B319521A2BDAE5/job/ ## About the Role * 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience * 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience * Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques * Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team * 3+ years of non-internship work across at least 5 of the following security domains: application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, security infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, or identity and access controls experience, * Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent * Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services * Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services ## Description As a successful Application Security Engineer within ATG 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: * 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 * Embrace GenAI and the security challenges it brings, to be able to guide builders in building leveraging GenAI securely. * Participate in and support application security reviews that include threat modeling, code review, and security testing. * Mentor and guide security champions embedded throughout the engineering team A day in the life As a successful Application Security Engineer within ATG 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., 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 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.