Amazon Security Engineer & Pentesting 

United States, Texas, Austin 

258172932

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Key job responsibilities
* Perform penetration testing exercises across all products, services, and software released by Amazon Lab126 and develop proof of concept exploits.
* Perform vulnerability research using variety of custom tooling and technologies (e.g. symbolic execution, static analyzers, fuzzers, scanners, machine learning, etc).
* Create tools for the discovery of vulnerabilities as well as scale security testing.
* Review technical solutions to provide guidance to help mitigate security vulnerabilities as well as provide actionable long-term risk mitigation guidance to drive security improvements.
* Develop detailed technical documentation describing identified vulnerabilities, associated impact as well as recommendations for guidance for communication with internal engineering stakeholders as well as leadership.A day in the life
* erform pentests on yet-to-be-released devices or software ensuring it meets security requirements
* Perform code review of a driver for a new device being launched to our customers
* Write proof-of-concept code to demonstrate the impact of a security issue
* Raise the security bar of vendor-provided hardware (such as whether there are security flaws in its boot process, etc.)
* Verify the code fixes made to address security issues
* Develop scripts or tools to automate assessments of targets
* Conduct independent vulnerability research on launched products or dependencies
Diverse Experiences
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- 3+ years of experience in a penetration testing or similar offensive security role
- 3+ years of professional experience with security engineering practices, including: web application security, network security, authentication and authorization protocols, cryptography, automation, and other software security disciplines
- 2+ years of experience with interpreted or compiled languages (e.g. C/C++, Java, Python, Ruby, .NET)
- Experience with threat modeling, design review, or other threat analysis techniques
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience

- Experience with testing low level firmware and hardware
- Experience with applying and assessing Machine Learning technologies
- Knowledge of cloud service providers and their offerings, preferably AWS, and its various technologies and services
- Experience in various security domains (e.g. system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, application security, incident response)
- Experience in developing security tooling and automation applying cutting edge technologies such as symbolic execution, code analysis, and fuzzing
- Published security research (e.g. conference presentations, whitepapers, blog posts)