Security Engineer, AWS Proactive Security

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.

About the team

• 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, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't 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 Amazon's 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, it's 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

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll 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, there's nothing we can't achieve.