Security Engineer II, Stores Penetration Testing

Amazon’s Information Security Penetration Testing Team is seeking a Security Engineer to help keep Amazon secure for its customers. In this role, you will attack Amazon’s services, applications, and websites to discover security issues and report them to our internal technology teams.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting high quality application 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

Requirements:

• 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