The scope of this role includes researching attack patterns, building attack simulations, active testing, and mentoring data scientists and software engineers. In this role, you will interface with many internal security teams to keep up to date with the latest attack techniques.
Key job responsibilities
As a Security Engineer, you’ll
Recognize and safely utilize attacker tools, tactics and procedures
Develop scripts, tools or methodologies to enhance red team capabilities
Work with data scientists to help develop and test detections for complex exploitation patterns
Build simulations to validate tools and techniques
Advise broader team on current threat landscape, tools & techniques
Ability to a detonate and analyze behavioral patterns of Malware
Create Intellectual Property, influence others while demonstrating significant creativity and being vocally self-critical
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, MA, Boston - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 159,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
