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Posted date: Jun 25, 2025
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Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $174,400
Range: $136,000 - $212,800
Description
We’re looking for talented security professionals who thrive in high energy environments to help us continue to solve security challenges and combat fraud and abuse at massive scale.In this role, you will leverage your knowledge in multiple domains to define elegant solutions to complex security questions. You will dig in to ambiguous issues spanning business and technical, networking, software, and physical security. You will work hands on with detection systems and vulnerability analysis tools to gather data and root-cause incidents. You will collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to analyze weaknesses and recommend pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements within an acceptable level of risk.
A successful candidate will be a creative, collaborative person who likes to be close to the details. They have a good mix of broad and deep technical knowledge and a demonstrated background in network or information security. They have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences. Most importantly, they like to get inside technology, understanding how things work, when to make subtle change, and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon develops products and services that transform the way customers live. Across teams and geographies, we strive to delight customers and earn their trust. Members of the Stores Security team are guardians of that trust. From drones to grocery stores and everything in between, our mission is to assess risk, classify data and systems, detect potential intrusion, and respond quickly to security events across Amazon’s critical business functions, including Retail, Customer Service, Worldwide Operations, Consumer Payments, Physical Stores, and Healthcare. We collaborate with business teams across Amazon to build security best practices into their mechanisms. Together, we are building (and securing) the future, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. The scope and scale of what Amazon does to delight customers challenges all Amazonians to be resourceful, invent and simplify, meet high standards, and embrace change. Together, we are building (and securing) the future, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.
The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise. In their communication, they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.
About the team
Security Abuse Prevention provides Stores businesses with identity and access management solutions and drive resilience against security abuse. We do this through scalable mechanisms, leveraging automation and AI, while ensuring protection of our customer data and privacy. The ISAP Security Engineering team is focused on data collection, correlation, and anomaly detection across the entire WWOps landscape. As an investigator on the team, you will be hunting for anomalous data patterns, attributing the patterns to fraud and abuse TTP (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), and working to identify the correct mitigation for these cases.
*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 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.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree- 3+ 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 applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
Extended Qualifications
- Experience with AWS products and services- 5+ 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 in e-commerce/on-line companies in fraud/risk control functions.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 $212,800/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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