Security Engineer II, Stores Red Team

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Security Engineer to join their STORM Red Team, focusing on offensive security operations. The role involves conducting red team engagements, documenting findings, and collaborating with various teams to enhance security measures across Amazon's services.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting red team engagements throughout Amazon independently, or as part of a team, targeting traditional infrastructure, cloud services, and AI/ML systems
• Creating detailed engagement plans, performing operations, and emulating adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Thoroughly documenting timelines, attack paths, findings/gaps, and recommendations
• Communicating and collaborating with partner teams, service owners, Amazon Security teams, and senior leadership to influence, prioritize, and drive the resolution of discovered security findings
• Performing manual examination of client systems, applications, networks, and AI-powered features to discover weaknesses, and thoroughly documenting high quality exploit chain/proof of concept scenarios/reports for customer consumption
• Assessing the security of AI/ML systems including LLM applications, agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, and model serving infrastructure for vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, training data poisoning, model extraction, and guardrail bypass
• Leveraging AI/ML capabilities to build and enhance offensive tooling, automate security research workflows, and improve engagement efficiency
• Contributing to tooling, processes, documentation, and quality of red team operations
• Helping to recruit and interview, and train/mentor/develop other Red Team engineers

Requirements:

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
• Familiarity with AI/ML vulnerability classes including prompt injection, training data poisoning, model extraction, and agent manipulation
• 3+ years of experience on a Red Team or in offensive security roles
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or 4+ years of hands-on Red Team / offensive security experience in lieu of a degree
• Experience with cloud-native red teaming (AWS, Azure, or GCP attack paths, privilege escalation, cross-account lateral movement)
• Experience leveraging AI/ML for offensive purposes (automated recon, exploit development, payload generation, building offensive agents)
• Published security research, CVEs, conference talks, or open-source offensive tooling
• Implant/C2 development experience (custom agents, communication protocols, evasion techniques)
• Experience evading or operating against enterprise EDR/XDR platforms
• Familiarity with adversary emulation frameworks and threat-informed operations (MITRE ATT&CK, threat actor playbook replication)