Job Description

Application deadline: May 23, 2026

Amazon’s STORM Red Team (SDO Threat Operations, Research & Monitoring) is looking for a Security Engineer to join our team of offensive security operators. We hack Amazon’s services, infrastructure, AI/ML systems, processes, and controls, then work with defensive and service teams to fix what we find and sharpen detection, prevention, and response capabilities across the company.

STORM Red Team is a 10-person team that operates with significant autonomy. We choose our own targets, scope our own engagements, and operate across Amazon (retail, devices, entertainment, healthcare, subsidiaries, and more), partnering with the AWS Red Team when our paths overlap. Our scope is expansive and always challenging, with new business areas and attack surfaces constantly emerging across Amazon. We run multi-week adversary emulation campaigns, purple team exercises, shortest-path assessments, and targeted research efforts. The work ranges from emulating nation-state actors against critical infrastructure to testing whether a financially motivated threat group’s public playbook would work against us. We report directly into SDO security leadership and our work regularly reaches VP and SVP audiences.

This is a fully remote position by design. The team is distributed and operates remotely as a core part of how we work.

We’re looking for someone who can independently execute Red Team engagements, build attack paths in complex environments, and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. You’ll be working alongside experienced operators who will push you to grow.

Key job responsibilities
• Conducting red team engagements throughout Amazon independently, or as part of a team, targeting traditional infrastructure, cloud services, and AI/ML systems.
• Creating detailed engagement plans, performing operations, and emulating adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Thoroughly documenting timelines, attack paths, findings/gaps, and recommendations.
• Communicating and collaborating with partner teams, service owners, Amazon Security teams, and senior leadership to influence, prioritize, and drive the resolution of discovered security findings.
• Performing manual examination of client systems, applications, networks, and AI-powered features to discover weaknesses, and thoroughly documenting high quality exploit chain/proof of concept scenarios/reports for customer consumption.
• Assessing the security of AI/ML systems including LLM applications, agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, and model serving infrastructure for vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, training data poisoning, model extraction, and guardrail bypass.
• Leveraging AI/ML capabilities to build and enhance offensive tooling, automate security research workflows, and improve engagement efficiency.
• Contributing to tooling, processes, documentation, and quality of red team operations.
• Helping to recruit and interview, and train/mentor/develop other Red Team engineers.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- Familiarity with AI/ML vulnerability classes including prompt injection, training data poisoning, model extraction, and agent manipulation
- 3+ years of experience on a Red Team or in offensive security roles
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent, or 4+ years of hands-on Red Team / offensive security experience in lieu of a degree

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with cloud-native red teaming (AWS, Azure, or GCP attack paths, privilege escalation, cross-account lateral movement)
- Experience leveraging AI/ML for offensive purposes (automated recon, exploit development, payload generation, building offensive agents)
- Published security research, CVEs, conference talks, or open-source offensive tooling
- Implant/C2 development experience (custom agents, communication protocols, evasion techniques)
- Experience evading or operating against enterprise EDR/XDR platforms.
- Familiarity with adversary emulation frameworks and threat-informed operations (MITRE ATT&CK, threat actor playbook replication)

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 Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits

USA, , - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually