Amazon Penetration Testing Engineer AWS 

United States, Washington 

774900411

We are looking for a Security Engineer to help ensure our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for application, and hardware penetration testing. You will be responsible for automating repetitive tasks using various scripting languages. You will be responsible for influencing Amazon services through the creation of threat mitigation plans. You will work directly with internal teams to solve challenging software problems.Key job responsibilities
* Perform penetration testing complex proprietary software and hardware for AWS services
* 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 guidanceAbout the team
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- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, similar degree, or equivalent professional experience can be used in lieu of a degree.
- Minimum of 1 years of experience in security testing (Penetration testing, Vulnerability testing, Red teaming, bug hunting or CTF experience)
- Minimum of 1 years of experience with manually auditing source code (One or more of: Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Rust, C, others) to find security issues.
- Minimum of 1 years of experience scripting in Python or other equivalent interpreted languages.
- Minimum of 1 years of professional experience with security engineering practices such as in web application security, network security, authentication and authorization protocols, cryptography, automation and other software security disciplines.

- Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models
- Experience with AWS technologies and services (e.g. S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM, etc.)
- Experience with bug hunting, bug bounties, capture the flag, software development
- Experience with multiple programming languagesPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.