Security Engineer, Bug Bounty

Amazon’s Bug Bounty team is growing and is seeking a security engineer to join the team. This individual will be working with customers and Amazon teams to secure Amazon’s public facing services, applications, and websites. In this role, you will be part of a team of skilled individuals and work to solicit the identification of vulnerabilities from Customers and security researchers. You will be responsible for ensuring vulnerabilities are remediated with urgency by partnering with service teams, ensuring what is learned through disclosure and mitigation improves the security of Amazon’s software development life-cycle. This role will provide you with challenging technical opportunities and the chance to grow Amazon’s Bug Bounty Program into the best on planet Earth.

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 drive improvements to Customer relationships, services, processes, and technologies throughout the company, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the continued safety and security of our Customers.

As a security engineer, you will use your influence and technical skills to continually lead the direction and evolution of the Bug Bounty Program and collaboration with Customers and security researchers in order to maintain and raise Amazon’s high security bar. You’ll be backed up by a team of highly-skilled security engineers all working with a singular focus of maintaining Customer trust. You must demonstrate resilience and navigate ambiguous situations with composure and tact. Above all else, a strong sense of Customer Obsession is necessary to focus on the ultimate goal of keeping Amazon and its Customers secure with the highest priority.

Key job responsibilities
* Participate in an on-call rotation that includes your peers on the team
* Participate in a weekend rotation that includes your peers on the team
* Coordinate security incident response and vulnerability management activities with service teams to do the right thing for our Customers and the business
* Evaluate the potential and/or realized impact of security incidents and work with service teams to mitigate risks
* Serve as an escalation point and subject matter expert in incident response, engineering operations, and team triage activities as part of day to day operations
* Tactically drive initiatives by influencing key stakeholders and partnering with security and business teams throughout Amazon
* Drive improvements to the team’s programs and processes
* Write and deliver high-quality documents for technical and non-technical audiences
* Manage relationships with Customers and security researchers

About the team
About Amazon Security:
Diverse Experiences
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Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- 3+ years experience in application security, incident response, or vulnerability management roles

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- Experience implementing security solutions at the business division level or equivalent
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Ability to take ownership, self-motivate, and deliver results in highly ambiguous environments

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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