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Application Security Engineer

Arlington, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time💰 $159,300–$202,400🗓 2026-10-02 → 2026-10-07

Core

Validate AWS services, applications, and websites against highest security standards by analyzing security, discovering issues, building automation, and reacting to threats.

Role type

Senior IC application security engineer

Builds

Security automation tools, security guidance documentation, and security metrics

Domain

Cloud security, application security, and web security

Required skills

Application security frameworks, security code reviews, penetration testing, threat modeling, cryptography, secure software development, networking protocols (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP), programming in Python/Java/Go/C++ (via careerplan.io/jobs/10568221-application-security-engineer-at-amazon)

Preferred skills

AWS products and services, identity management and authentication, system administration, network security, web services technologies

Technologies

Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS, TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, SSL/TLS

Responsibilities

Application security reviews, Penetration testing, Security tool development, Security training and outreach to internal development teams, Security guidance documentation, Security metrics delivery and improvements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC