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Posted date: Mar 20, 2025
Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $108,750
Range: $67,200 - $150,300
Description
At Amazon, we foster an environment where the world's brightest minds can invent and innovate to enhance our customers' experiences. We're looking for team members who will help shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our evolution is driven by a spirit of invention that's deeply ingrained in our DNA.We are seeking an exceptional Support Engineer III to join our Security Issues Management team. In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable security solutions that empower Amazon's builders to maintain secure systems.
- Develop and support tools used by all Amazonians to enhance our security posture.
- Solve complex technical and business problems with ingenuity and simplicity.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security best practices across Amazon's environments.
- Contribute to our mission of protecting customer trust by maintaining high security standards.
This position offers a unique opportunity to create solutions that will impact every service at Amazon. The ideal candidate will be passionate about security, have a strong technical background, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
Join us in our commitment to secure Amazon's environments and protect our customers' trust. Help us set and maintain the highest security standards in the industry.
Key job responsibilities
- Serve as the primary point of contact for builders and security partners, providing expert guidance and support in resolving issues related to our security tools.
- Develop, maintain, and optimize team-related application security metrics and customer-facing documentation to ensure clear communication and continuous improvement.
- Utilize scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) to automate processes, create tools, and enhance existing security solutions.
- Troubleshoot and diagnose complex issues within team-owned infrastructure, conducting root cause analysis and implementing effective solutions.
- Support and enhance a suite of internally developed analysis tools, including writing and modifying scripts to improve functionality and efficiency.
- Leverage SQL for data collection, preparation, and analysis to support security initiatives and inform decision-making processes.
- Continuously improve and streamline support processes through scripting and automation, increasing team efficiency and reducing response times.
About the team
Amazon is continuously innovating new services and features for customers. To keep up with that innovation, the Security Issues Management team raises the bar for security by providing tools to manage security issues to builders, security teams, and leaders.
- Assist builders and development teams with information, and reminders to efficiently address security issues in their domain
- Drive efficiencies at scale through thoughtful but deliberate automation that raises the security bar and eliminates vulnerability classes.
- Provide innovative solutions to maintain pace with emerging technologies.
- Partner with other security teams, engineers, builders, and security practitioners to improve security.
About AmSec
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.
Training 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.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of software development, or 2+ years of technical support experience- Experience scripting in modern programming languages
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
Extended Qualifications
- Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development- Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID
- Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON
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.
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 $67,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $150,300/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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