Security Engineer, Amazon
Customer Logistics Security
$136-212.8k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$136-212.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering or related field with 3+ years of experience in red teaming and/or penetration testing
- Experience with offensive security testing tools (Cobalt Strike, Sliver, etc.) and MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Understanding of security vulnerabilities and mitigations with experience emulating both external and insider threats
- Scripting experience (in Python, JavaScript, etc.)
Desirable
- Proven ability to plan, execute, and lead end-to-end red team engagements, covering all stages of the kill chain (reconnaissance, initial access, persistence, lateral movement, and objective completion)
- Experience with source code review (in C, Java, Ruby, Python, Rust etc.) to find security issues
- Experience with cloud security concepts and technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Knowledge of operating system (Windows, Linux, etc.) internals
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP
What the job involves
- Amazon’s Customer Logistics Security team is looking for a skilled security engineer to join our team’s efforts to help keep Amazon secure by uncovering and exploiting vulnerabilities
- In this role, you will be part of a dedicated team of talented security engineers performing penetration testing and red teaming exercises
- You will strive to understand systems, software, and services deeply and develop creative ways to break assumptions in order to find vulnerabilities
- You will help mitigate vulnerabilities/risks by providing actionable guidance to product teams and drive long term security improvements
- You will build automation and tooling to solve security problems at scale for our customers
- Conducting high quality penetration tests and red team engagements independently, or as part of a team
- Creating detailed engagement plans and thoroughly documenting findings, gaps, and remediation recommendations
- Contributing to team tooling, innovation, and improvements
- Communicating and collaborating with partner teams, service owners, other security teams, and senior leadership to influence, prioritize, and drive the resolution of discovered security findings
- A day in the life
- As a security engineer, you will perform various day-to-day activities related to ensuring the security of Amazon's systems
- These tasks may include conducting offensive security engagements to identify vulnerabilities in systems that could be exploited by attackers, providing training and outreach to internal development teams to improve their understanding of security best practices, developing security guidance documentation to help others understand how to implement secure systems and applications, delivering security metrics to stakeholders and working on improving the overall security posture of our customers
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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