Senior Security Engineer, AWS Vulnerability Management, AWS Vulnerability Management - Host OS and Third Party Software

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is hiring for a role in Third Party Software and Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Management.

You will apply offensive security skills to identify risks in vendors and package registries, set security bars for top CI/CD toolchains, and drive rapid mitigation of supply chain incidents at machine speed. You will help build the offensive security capability from the ground up and mentor security engineers, owning hard, ambiguous problems with Amazon-wide impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
• 4+ years troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks.
• 4+ years scripting, programming, and security code review in common languages.
• Experience in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Hunt for attack paths through third party software and supply chain components using penetration testing and threat intelligence.
• Define and enforce the security bar for the package registry and CI/CD toolchains.
• Build and test detection-to-block automation to mitigate supply chain incidents within minutes.
• Raise security standards across code repositories through architecture and code reviews.
• Mentor security engineers and communicate risk assessments to peers and leadership.

Skills

Security issue identification

Threat intelligence

Log analysis

Scripting

Programming languages: Scala

Programming languages: Java

Programming languages: Python

Programming languages: C/C++

Programming languages: Go

Mentorship / tech lead

Job description

Do you want to build security solutions in third party software and software supply chain that have not been built anywhere at this scale?

Amazon is hiring for our Third Party Software and Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Management team. You will put your offensive security background to work — penetration testing, exploit development, or threat intelligence — to find the attack paths an adversary would take through our vendors and package registries, and to decide which risks we close first.

This is a role where the hardest problems are not yet defined, and defining them is the job. You will own outcomes, not tickets. You will set the security bar for the top CI/CD toolchains at Amazon, drive mitigation of supply chain incidents at machine speed, and build the defense against a SolarWinds-class vendor compromise before it happens. You will set the security requirements and hand validated designs to software development engineers to build at scale, so your judgment sets the direction for a team.

You will also help build our offensive security capability from the ground up and mentor the security engineers around you. If you want to own hard, ambiguous security problems with Amazon-wide impact and grow the team that solves them, this role is for you.

Key job responsibilities

• Hunt for the attack paths an adversary would take through Amazon's third party software packages and supply chain components, using penetration testing and threat intelligence to decide which risks we close first.
• Define and enforce the security bar for Amazon's curated package registry and top CI/CD toolchains, close the riskiest bypass paths, and hand validated designs to software development engineers to implement.
• Build and test detection-to-block automation that mitigates supply chain incidents within minutes, and lead rapid response for zero-day vulnerabilities in internet-facing third party appliances.
• Raise the security bar across code repositories through architecture review, code review, and reusable frameworks that engineering teams can pick up with minimal effort.
• Mentor security engineers and shape a culture of fast, pragmatic solutions while communicating risk assessments and design decisions to technical peers and senior leadership.

A day in the life

A suspicious package lands in the curated registry and something about it looks wrong. You pull the threat intelligence, trace what it touches, and make the call thousands of builders are waiting on: block it, or let it through. By the time your coffee is cold, you've either stopped a supply chain compromise or cleared a false alarm.

Later you're working with an AWS engineering team that wants to wire a new toolchain into their pipeline. You've already mapped how an attacker would abuse it, so you set the security bar the integration has to clear. They build to your spec, not the other way around. In the afternoon you throw a simulated supply chain attack at the detection-to-block automation, find the gap it misses, prove it, and hand a validated design to an SDE to close it.

About the team

Our team owns Third Party Software and Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Management for Amazon, building mitigations at a scale that has not been done before. We partner with AWS engineering teams across the company, working directly with their architectures to prioritize and reduce security risk. You will have visibility to VPs and Distinguished Engineers in AWS and Amazon Security, and the problems you solve here protect not just AWS but all of Amazon. We value an inclusive culture where pragmatic security solutions are the norm and every engineer has the opportunity to make an outsized impact.

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.

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

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.

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.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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.

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.

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