Senior Penetration Testing Engineer, AWS Gen AI Security

Do you enjoy finding unique security flaws in artificial intelligence and cloud systems? Do you enjoy protecting customers by securing AI and AWS services at scale? Do you enjoy mentoring and leading engineers to solve complex security problems in cutting-edge technologies? On the AWS Gen AI security team, as a Senior Security Engineer you will be responsible for the delivery of continuous assessments. You will be asked to solve complex technology problems, build tools to automate your way out of manual efforts, and influence the way Amazon services, primarily Gen AI services respond to and mitigate threats.

Our team is responsible for manually evaluating the security of all Gen AI products, services and software released by AWS. We specialize in uncovering subtle vulnerabilities that automated tools miss, and develop custom tooling to scale our security efforts across Amazon's expanding Gen AI landscape. The AWS surface area is large and diverse, and we use insights from manual testing to continually improve our focused automation to proactively identify and fix potential issues before customers are impacted.

We are looking for a Senior Penetration Testing Engineer to help ensure our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for application and/or hardware penetration testing. You will be responsible for automating repetitive tasks using various scripting languages. You will be responsible for mentoring and leading other engineers to deliver complex penetration tests and vulnerability assessments. You will be expected to drive automation, tooling, efficiency and advance the teams penetration testing capabilities. You will be responsible for influencing Amazon services through the creation of threat mitigation plans. You will work directly with internal teams to solve challenging software and security problems.

Key job responsibilities
- Perform penetration testing complex proprietary software and hardware for AWS Gen AI services like Bedrock, Amazon Q, and Code Whisperer.
- Manually audit the source code of web services and software authored in house by Amazon
- Write proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issue
- Provide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fix
- Partner with AWS developers to drive improvement in application security as a result of security review engagements
- Provide actionable long-term risk mitigation guidance to internal and external stakeholder
- Conduct independent vulnerability research pertaining to Gen AI technologies


About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Virtual Location - USA