Security Engineer II, Specialized Businesses Security, External Vulnerability Operations
DESCRIPTION
This individual will be working with external security researchers and Amazon teams to secure Amazon’s public-facing devices and services. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring vulnerabilities are remediated with urgency by partnering with service teams, ensuring what is learned through disclosure and mitigation improves the security of Amazon’s device and software development life cycle. This role will provide you with challenging leadership and technical opportunities and the chance to grow Amazon’s Bug Bounty and Threat Intelligence programs into the best on planet Earth.
You will be in direct contact with teams in a variety of business verticals, giving you firsthand knowledge about how Amazon is built and how it operates at a deep, technical level. Additionally, you will leverage the knowledge you gain about Amazon to find new ways to drive improvements to Customer relationships, services, processes, and technologies throughout the company, with the goal of ensuring the continued safety and security of our customers.
You will use your technical skills to triage disclosed risks and collaborate with customers and security researchers to maintain and raise Amazon’s high security bar. You’ll be backed up by a team of highly skilled security engineers all working with a singular focus of maintaining customer trust and security. You must demonstrate resilience and navigate ambiguous situations with composure and tact. Above all else, a strong sense of Customer Obsession is necessary to focus on the goal of keeping Amazon and its customers secure with the highest priority.
Key job responsibilities
You will be in direct contact with teams in a variety of business verticals, giving you firsthand knowledge about how Amazon is built and how it operates at a deep, technical level. Additionally, you will leverage the knowledge you gain about Amazon to find new ways to drive improvements to Customer relationships, services, processes, and technologies throughout the company, with the goal of ensuring the continued safety and security of our customers.
You will use your technical skills to triage disclosed risks and collaborate with customers and security researchers to maintain and raise Amazon’s high security bar. You’ll be backed up by a team of highly skilled security engineers all working with a singular focus of maintaining customer trust and security. You must demonstrate resilience and navigate ambiguous situations with composure and tact. Above all else, a strong sense of Customer Obsession is necessary to focus on the goal of keeping Amazon and its customers secure with the highest priority.
Key job responsibilities
- Triage externally disclosed hardware and service security issues, suggest fixes, and collaborate with builder teams for remediation
- Identify risk trends in Amazon devices and services, and collaborate with builder teams for remediation
- Automate manual processes to streamline security work
- Lead improvements to Amazon programs and processes
- Write and deliver high-quality documents for technical and non-technical audiences
- Manage relationships with Customers and security researchers
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in any combination of the following: application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, secure infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls, threat modeling, cryptography, threat intelligence, or secure software development
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Experience in scripting, programming, or security code reviewing in a common language, such as Python, Java, or C++
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience working with device technologies under development, familiarity with flashing firmware, basic device debugging and familiarity with reading/pulling device logs, or experience scripting in one or more language (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby)
- Deep understanding of hardware security, firmware analysis, operating system internals, and low-level programming
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
- 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 supporting Red Team, Penetration Testing, or Bug Bounty programs
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