Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer to help protect its services, applications, websites, and customers. The role conducts application security reviews and penetration tests, documents findings and remediation recommendations, contributes to security tooling and innovation, and collaborates with technical teams and senior leadership to resolve security issues.
Responsibilities
- Conducting high quality application security reviews and penetration tests independently, or as part of a team
- Creating detailed engagement plans and thoroughly documenting findings, gaps, and remediation recommendations
- Contributing to team tooling, innovation, and improvements
- Communicating and collaborating with partner teams, service owners, Information Security, and senior leadership to influence, prioritize, and drive the resolution of discovered security findings
Skills
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
- 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
- 2+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- 3+ years of experience in a penetration testing or information security role
- Knowledge of cloud service providers and their offerings, preferably AWS, and its various technologies and services
- Experience in developing security tooling and automation
- Experience in CTF competitions, CVE research, and/or Bug Bounty recognition
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and an option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Flexibility as part of the working culture
- Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences
- Knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources
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