Security Engineer, Compliance Penetration Testing

Amazon Stores Security is hiring a Security Engineer for their Application Security Compliance Penetration Testing team. In this role, you will attack Amazon's services, applications, and websites to find security issues and work directly with technology teams to resolve them.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting high quality 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:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience
• 3+ years of experience performing hands-on application penetration testing or offensive security assessments across web applications, APIs, or cloud services
• Experience manually identifying, exploiting, and documenting application vulnerabilities, including authentication, authorization, business logic, and input validation flaws
• Experience writing penetration test reports and communicating findings, severity, and remediation guidance directly to software development teams
• 2+ years of scripting or programming experience in Python, Go, Java, Ruby, or a similar language (non-internship)
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience building security automation, for example scripting or tooling that automates testing, finding triage, reporting, or evidence collection
• Working knowledge of one or more regulatory or compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOX, MAS TRM, RBI, or GDPR, and how their requirements translate into penetration testing scope and evidence
• Experience testing service-oriented or RPC-based backend services in addition to web front ends
• Familiarity with recognized testing standards such as OWASP ASVS, OWASP Top 10, or PTES
• Experience using AI or LLM-assisted tooling to accelerate security testing
• Offensive security certification such as OSCP, OSWE, GPEN, or PenTest+