Amazon Senior Security Engineer Ads 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

916059491

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Security Engineer within Amazon’s Ads Security team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that applications across numerous Ads platforms are designed and executed with the highest security standards to maintain customer trust. You will tackle a diverse array of security challenges, ranging from novel attack vectors in Ads services to selecting and implementing scalable and secure features. Additionally, you will serve as a subject matter expert, providing guidance to developers on building secure products and fostering a security-conscious culture within the organization.* Simulate adversarial attacks and identify vulnerabilities in advertising applications and infrastructure.* Identify actionable solutions for identified vulnerabilities and collaborate with ads product and engineering teams to influence and prioritize their resolution.A day in the life
Activities in this role include:
• Identifying security vulnerabilities in advertising applications and infrastructure.
• Influencing product teams and senior leadership to implement practices that maintain a high security bar.
• Proposing, collaborating & obtaining buy-in on strategic security initiatives.
• Recommending and developing security-focused tools that help product teams prevent security misconfiguration & vulnerabilities at scale.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with developing security automation tooling
- 3+ years of experience in a penetration testing or similar offensive security role
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with application security design and architecture review

- Experience with Gen AI and/or mobile penetration testing