Sr Security Engineer, HW, Devices and Services Security

About the role

Have you wanted an opportunity to find security issues in the chips and low level software that enables various Amazon digital products? Are you able to find bugs in chips by reviewing design and code and by performing tests? This position will provide you with a unique opportunity to do both. The Security team is responsible for identifying security flaws and guiding device business to achieve secure hardware architecture for chips used in Amazon devices like Fire TV, Eero, Alexa, Ring, to name a few. This team partners with business teams and performs chip level security testing, secure chip architecture design and advisory, system review, and code review for bootrom, bootloader, and firmware.

Responsibilities

• Help guide the secure development of devices at Amazon, from security design, threat modeling to code reviews, security testing and fuzzing
• 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
• Participate in projects that develop new intellectual property

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages
• Knowledge of hardware security mechanisms, including secure boot, trusted execution environments
• Semiconductor reverse engineering
• Knowledge of operating system internals, with emphasis on Linux and common RTOS environments

Qualifications

• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong code review and exploit development
• Hands‑on fault injection and side channel attack and mitigation experience
• Experience with hardware, system and network security, including use of cryptography in these verticals

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, 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
• Sign‑on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Pay

Salary ranges:

• USA, CA, Sunnyvale: $183,000 – $247,600 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle: $178,400 – $226,700 USD annually