Security Engineer I, Customer Logistics Security

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.

Key job responsibilities
- Conducting high quality penetration tests and red team engagements 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, and other security teams, 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

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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 and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering or related field or equivalent experience with 1+ years of experience in penetration testing and/or red teaming
- Experience with offensive security testing tools (Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, etc.) and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Understanding of security vulnerabilities and mitigations.
- Scripting experience (in Python, JavaScript, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

- 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.
- Experience with threat modeling or other risk identification techniques.

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 des