Security Engineer, Specialized Business Services Cryptography
About the role
The Specialized Businesses Security (SBS) Cryptography team at Amazon sets strategic direction for cryptography use through research, development, training, and consultation. We are looking for strong crypto security engineers to design, analyze, review, implement, and review implementations of cryptographic solutions in devices and cloud services. You will own the design, analysis, and implementation of cryptographic solutions, own key deliverables, and have opportunities to extend existing systems and build others from scratch. You will interact with other Cryptographers, Security Engineers, and Applied Scientists to convert their vision into technical solutions. You will participate in developing guidance and training material regarding secure/proper use of cryptography for other software builders. This is a high-visibility, fast-paced environment where you will make a direct impact on customer experience and the company's bottom line.
Key job responsibilities
- Gather and analyze business and functional requirements, and translate business requirements into technical design specifications.
- Design, review, and analyze cryptographic solutions for devices and cloud services.
- Work closely with software development engineers to implement cryptographic solutions.
- Ensure that code developed by you in collaboration with software development engineers is high-quality, efficient, testable, and maintainable.
- Be responsible for technical problem solving, meeting product objectives, and developing best practices.
- Track and report on metrics which are key performance indicators, allowing performance improvements so that the desired outcomes are achieved to plan and in a timely manner.
- Serve as an essential technical resource for builders in Specialized Business teams in the full development cycle of cryptography related software.
- Work in an agile development environment.
About the team
The SBS-Crypto Team researches advances in cryptographic standards and algorithms, serving as experts for post-quantum cryptography, homomorphic encryption, lightweight cryptography, security protocols, and the implementation of these technologies. When new cryptographic technologies are needed and unavailable, SBS-Crypto builds (or partners with development teams to build) such capabilities to expand the technology shelf of available solutions. Team members provide cryptographic expertise for SBS development teams for consultative design exploration and security design reviews. Cryptography team members contribute to advancing SBS level-of-knowledge by developing and leading training classes and adding to the cryptography and devices security body-of-knowledge, increasing development team's self-sufficiency.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 3+ years of IT Security experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional experience in the development of cryptographic solutions
- 3+ years of leading design or architecture and implementation of systems using cryptographic algorithms, public-key infrastructure, and hardware security modules
- 3+ years of threat modeling for cryptographic solutions
Preferred qualifications
- 2+ 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
- Experience with AWS products and services
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Familiarity with post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and public key cryptography
- Experience developing security protocols from public standards and/or academic papers