Senior Security Engineer, Device Platform Security Team

Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development organization that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Starting with the best-selling Kindle family of products Amazon Devices developed and produced ground-breaking devices like Amazon Echo products Fire tablets Fire TV Astro Halo Ring Doorbells Blink Cameras and more.

The Role
Are you interested in being part of a top-notch security team covering all Amazon devices If you want to keep customers safe then we have a job for you! Amazons Device Security Platform team is growing and looking for strong leaders.

In this role you will work in the OS platform Security team for Amazon devices like Echo FireTV Fire tablets Ring and Blink doorbells cameras drones wearables Kindle readers and automotive security.


Key job responsibilities
* Help guide the software development lifecycle of devices at Amazon from security design threat modeling to code reviews security testing and fuzzing
* Be responsible for analyzing the security of the platform components of consumer devices
* Propose research and develop tools and techniques to improve the security posture of devices at scale
* Provide technical security expertise and consultation to device product teams
* Identify security risks and work with product engineers to create mitigations
* Develop new security policies and procedures
* Empower others to improve their security acumen by promoting awareness and developing training materials

About the team
We are responsible for empowering and enabling the organizations of Amazon Devices to develop and build secure products including responding to public vulnerabilities and reviewing or co-developing security features to protect customers.

- Bachelors degree
- 5 years of work in identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans experience
- Knowledge of operating system internals with emphasis on Linux and common RTOS environments
- Familiarity with system security vulnerability research and remediation techniques and the development of exploit PoCs
- Experience with network security and authentication protocols cryptography and application security
- Security code review experience in C

- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Knowledge of Android OS internals
- Experience with coding in C/C assembly languages and scripting (e.g. Ruby Perl Python Bash)
- Experience with fundamentals of common wireless connectivity protocols (e.g. Bluetooth WiFi Zigbee Thread)
- Knowledge of hardware security mechanisms including secure boot and trusted execution environments

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability 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 despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Sunnyvale - 183000.00 - 247600.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually