Amazon · 17 hours ago
ACTI Cyber Threat Exploitation Engineer , Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence
Annapolis Junction, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$143K/yr - $248K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is seeking an innovative Senior Security Engineer to join the Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) team as a Cyber Threat Exploitation Engineer. In this role, you will leverage your in-depth knowledge of emergent exploits and vulnerabilities to identify novel threat actors and discover attacks against Amazon and AWS, while also formulating new analytic techniques to drive supporting capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceRetail
Responsibilities
Identify, research, and analyze novel vulnerabilities discovered in threat intelligence data, applications, devices, and networks
Interface with ACTI reverse engineers to provide reversing requirements as well as be able to independently triage malware, analyze exploit samples, and study attack techniques to understand how vulnerabilities are being weaponized
Pursue actionable intelligence on current exploits, perform deep dive analysis of malicious artifacts related to software exploits, and use that data to identify attacks against Amazon, AWS, and its customers
Analyze large and unstructured data sets to identify trends and anomalies indicative of malicious activities
Create security techniques and automation for internal use that enable the team to operate at high speed and broad scale
Provide situational awareness on the current threat landscape and the techniques, tactics, and procedures associated with specific threats
Accurately document ongoing investigations, craft consumable threat intelligence products, and clearly present and communicate emerging threats and high-risk vulnerabilities in operating systems and software libraries, cloud, network devices, and web applications to key stakeholders
Periodic on-call responsibilities
Qualification
Required
BS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or 5+ years of technical work experience
5+ years of industry-based experience in security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques (non-internship) experience
5+ 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
5+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
5+ years of SQL experience
Knowledge of and experience with cloud infrastructure technologies
Preferred
Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or MS degree
5+ years experience Threat Intelligence research and analysis related to software exploits and the creation of corresponding detections and/or countermeasures
Experience with malware analysis, network flow analysis, and large scale data analysis
Experience with firmware reverse engineering, and analysis of ARM, MIPS, and x86-64 binaries
Experience fuzzing software for correctness and triaging crashes, Web application enumeration and attack surface analysis
Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, and or OS X internals, web, and common software vulnerabilities, to include, functional understanding of stack, heap exploitation along with general web application exploitation (SQLi, XSS, command injection, authentication bypass)
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
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10001+ employees
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$8.11BKey Investors
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