Amazon’s Stores Security Red Team is seeking a Security Engineer to help keep Amazon's infrastructure secure for its customers by attacking Amazon’s services, infrastructure, processes, and controls, and by partnering with defensive & service teams to remediate weaknesses and sharpen our detective, preventative, and response capabilities. This role presents an ultimate test of ones security knowledge and ability, along with the support of a team of highly skilled individuals. This position will provide you with challenging opportunities, both technologically and as a leader, but will also be a great deal of fun if hacking Amazon alongside a team of highly skilled individuals sounds exciting to you.

A Security Engineer at Amazon is expected to be strong in multiple domains. Engineers in this role work closely with teams throughout Amazon Security, as well as provide technical leadership and advice to teams and leaders throughout Amazon. You will be in direct contact with teams in a variety of business verticals, giving you first hand knowledge about how Amazon is built and how it operates at a deep, technical level. Additionally, you will leverage the knowledge you gain about Amazon to find new ways to break services, processes, and technologies throughout the company.

Engineers in this role must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short-term fixes and long-term security and business goals. They must also demonstrate resilience and navigate ambiguous situations with composure and tact. Individuals in this role will be expected to provide thought leadership for the organization as you discover, invent, and innovate throughout the course of their duties. Above all else, a strong sense of customer obsession is necessary to focus on the ultimate goal of keeping Amazon and its customers secure.

Key job responsibilities
- Conducting red team engagements throughout Amazon independently, or as part of a team.
- 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 and networks to discover weaknesses, and thoroughly documenting high quality exploit chain/proof of concept scenarios/reports for customer consumption.
- Contributing to tooling, processes, documentation, and quality of red team operations.
- Helping to recruit and interview, and train/mentor/develop other Red Team engineers.