Are you interested in security and supporting penetration testing at a global scale? Do you strive to achieve a deep understanding of systems and apply a hacker mindset to determine how they can be broken? As a pre-launch Security Engineer, you are part of a testing team that evaluates AWS services and features to help builders maintain a high security bar. When builders have implemented fixes to security issues, you review their proposed corrections to determine efficacy before final release. You work closely with testers to understand their approaches and methodologies so you can quickly reproduce them in a variety of customer environments. You recognize the value of automation and are comfortable with scripting languages to develop tools that improve the speed and quality of your team's verification work.
Our team is responsible for the manual assessment of all products, services and software released by AWS. To accomplish this, we support and write a variety of automated tooling (e.g. fuzzers, scanners, analyzers, etc.) to verify security fixes related to penetration testing. We specialize in digging deep to find security issues that static analysis tools can't, and write the tooling to help with these goals whenever possible. The AWS surface area is large and diverse, and we use results found in manual analysis to help improve our enterprise-wide automation to proactively spot and fix potential security issues to protect customers.
Key job responsibilities
• Automate the verification and remediation of security issues
• Manually audit the source code of web services and software authored in house by Amazon
• Write proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issue
• Provide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fix
• Partner with AWS developers to drive improvement in application security as a result of security review engagements
• Provide actionable long term risk mitigation guidance
A day in the life
A day in the life
As a Security Engineer supporting verifications for pre-launch testing, you have the opportunity to review and dive deep into builder-proposed fixes. You'll access development environments for upcoming AWS services and features to dive deep into their code to learn how security issues were discovered and how the builders intend to address them. You perform static code analysis and dynamic reproduction of issues to make the final decision on whether the builder's proposed fix is sufficient to allow their code release.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship) experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Experience scripting with Python, Perl, Bash or PowerShell
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
- Experience with coding/scripting in one or more languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby, or PowerShell)
- Experience using standard security assessment and penetration testing tools such as BurpSuite, Metasploit, and IDA Pro
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Virtual Location - Washington - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually
