Security Engineer, Devices Security (Associate)
Jobright.ai
Sunnyvale,
California,
United States
Information Technology
Engineering
H-1B
Job posted on July 26, 2025
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Job Summary: Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development organization that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. The Security Engineer will guide the software development lifecycle for devices, ensuring their security through various methods including threat modeling, code reviews, and security testing.
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
Qualifications:
Required: • 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent • Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP • Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent • Understanding of OS kernel architecture including device drivers, kernel modules, system call interfaces and privilege management • Experience with security technologies like eBPF for system monitoring, memory analysis tools like Valgrind, and dynamic analysis approaches such as fuzzing and symbolic execution (e.g. KLEE, angr) • Knowledge of boot process security and kernel hardening techniques • Code review experience in C/C++
Preferred: • Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++ • Knowledge of Android OS internals, fundamentals of common wireless connectivity protocols (e.g. Bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee, Thread) and hardware security mechanisms
Company: Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company. Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
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Job Summary: Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development organization that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. The Security Engineer will guide the software development lifecycle for devices, ensuring their security through various methods including threat modeling, code reviews, and security testing.
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
Qualifications:
Required: • 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent • Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP • Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent • Understanding of OS kernel architecture including device drivers, kernel modules, system call interfaces and privilege management • Experience with security technologies like eBPF for system monitoring, memory analysis tools like Valgrind, and dynamic analysis approaches such as fuzzing and symbolic execution (e.g. KLEE, angr) • Knowledge of boot process security and kernel hardening techniques • Code review experience in C/C++
Preferred: • Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++ • Knowledge of Android OS internals, fundamentals of common wireless connectivity protocols (e.g. Bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee, Thread) and hardware security mechanisms
Company: Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company. Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.