[Hiring] Security Engineer II, Stores Red Team @Amazon

Role Description

Amazon’s STORM Red Team (SDO Threat Operations, Research & Monitoring) is looking for a Security Engineer to join our team of offensive security operators. We hack Amazon’s services, infrastructure, AI/ML systems, processes, and controls, then work with defensive and service teams to fix what we find and sharpen detection, prevention, and response capabilities across the company.

This is a fully remote position by design. The team is distributed and operates remotely as a core part of how we work.

We’re looking for someone who can independently execute Red Team engagements, build attack paths in complex environments, and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. You’ll be working alongside experienced operators who will push you to grow.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Conducting red team engagements throughout Amazon independently, or as part of a team, targeting traditional infrastructure, cloud services, and AI/ML systems.
• Creating detailed engagement plans, performing operations, and emulating adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Thoroughly documenting timelines, attack paths, findings/gaps, and recommendations.
• Communicating and collaborating with partner teams, service owners, Amazon Security teams, and senior leadership to influence, prioritize, and drive the resolution of discovered security findings.
• Performing manual examination of client systems, applications, networks, and AI-powered features to discover weaknesses, and thoroughly documenting high quality exploit chain/proof of concept scenarios/reports for customer consumption.
• Assessing the security of AI/ML systems including LLM applications, agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, and model serving infrastructure for vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, training data poisoning, model extraction, and guardrail bypass.
• Leveraging AI/ML capabilities to build and enhance offensive tooling, automate security research workflows, and improve engagement efficiency.
• Contributing to tooling, processes, documentation, and quality of red team operations.
• Helping to recruit and interview, and train/mentor/develop other Red Team engineers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience.
• Familiarity with AI/ML vulnerability classes including prompt injection, training data poisoning, model extraction, and agent manipulation.
• 3+ years of experience on a Red Team or in offensive security roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent, or 4+ years of hands-on Red Team / offensive security experience in lieu of a degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native red teaming (AWS, Azure, or GCP attack paths, privilege escalation, cross-account lateral movement).
• Experience leveraging AI/ML for offensive purposes (automated recon, exploit development, payload generation, building offensive agents).
• Published security research, CVEs, conference talks, or open-source offensive tooling.
• Implant/C2 development experience (custom agents, communication protocols, evasion techniques).
• Experience evading or operating against enterprise EDR/XDR platforms.
• Familiarity with adversary emulation frameworks and threat-informed operations (MITRE ATT&CK, threat actor playbook replication).

Benefits

• Comprehensive 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.
• Parental leave.

Company Description

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.

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.

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 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.