Job Location : Atlanta,GA, USA
Description
Do you enjoy breaking software and services? Do you strive to understand systems, software, and services deeply in order to break them? Do you find yourself automating your work every chance you get? If so, wed love for you to join us.
The Security penetration testing team is looking to hire a Penetration Testing Engineer to join its ranks. Our team is responsible for manual assessment of all products, services and software released by Amazon. We specialize in diving deep to find security issues that static analysis tools cannot and we write tooling to help with these goals. The threat 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.
This is a hands-on technical role that includes mentoring, guiding, and supporting junior engineers. The person in this role will help us evolve the way we work by advising and improving on team processes to bring efficiency and enable us to scale. This could be done by through automation, advising leadership, owning problem areas and programs, or something else entirely. We want smart, creative engineers who want to contribute to uplifting the entire organization.
On this team you will be reading and manually reviewing source code in Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Rust, C, and other languages to look for security bugs. We dont expect you to be an expert at those languages, but we do want you to be curious and able to learn new things quickly.
On this team youll be writing proof of concept software to demonstrate impact of an issue. This is not oftware development engineering nor is it a traditional red team position. You wont be phishing people or writing enterprise-grade software, but we do hope you can script your way out of a problem.
If you're passionate about finding security bugs, writing tools to reduce manual testing, developing others and enjoy seeing your work's impact across the internet, then wed like you to help us solve some interesting and complex problems at Amazon scale.
Key job responsibilities
You are a leader in our team. You guide less senior engineers during pentest engagements. You advise leadership. You lead engagements, identify scope items, and build test plans. When possible, you champion automation.
Responsibilities:
- Execute manual penetration testing and source code review engagements against a variety of web services and software
- Develop other engineers
- Advise management
- Write automation to help scale security testing at Amazon
- Provide actionable long-term risk mitigation guidance
- Provide clear communication on the issue to developers, suggest and help to test the fix
- Partner with Amazon developers to drive improvement in application security as a result of security review engagements
A day in the life
Your internal stakeholders are your fellow security engineers, our builder teams, and our AppSec partners.
About the team
About Amazon Security
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazons products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve.
Basic Qualifications
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or other related fields, from an accredited university. Equivalent professional experience can be used in lieu of a degree.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in professional penetration testing, source code auditing, bug hunting, or CTF experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in scripting in Python or other equivalent interpreted programming languages
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with security engineering practices such as in web application security, network security, authN/authZ protocols, cryptography, automation, and other software security.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS technologies and services (e.g. S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM, etc.)
- Experience with penetration testing, red teams, CTF (Capture The Flag), or bug bounties
- Experience with penetration testing tools
- Experience with source code auditing
- Experience with multiple programming languages
- Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.