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Security Engineer, Compliance Penetration Testing

Amazon· Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
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Hybrid (TX)$159.3k - $202.4kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Security Engineer for Application Security Compliance Penetration Testing (CPT) focusing on testing Amazon's services, applications, and websites to identify security issues and drive remediation in support of regulatory and compliance commitments.

Responsibilities

  • Conducting high quality penetration tests independently, or as part of a team
  • Creating detailed engagement plans and thoroughly documenting findings, gaps, and remediation recommendations
  • Contributing to team tooling, innovation, and improvements
  • Communicating and collaborating with partner teams, service owners, Information Security, and senior leadership to influence, prioritize, and drive the resolution of discovered security findings

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security
  • 2+ years of scripting language, or 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
  • 3+ years of hands-on application penetration testing or offensive security assessments across web applications, APIs, or cloud services (non-internship) experience
  • Experience manually identifying, exploiting, and documenting application vulnerabilities, including authentication, authorization, business logic, and input validation flaws
  • Experience writing penetration test reports and communicating findings, severity, and remediation guidance directly to software development teams

Skills

Required:Penetration testingReporting and communication

Benefits

  • 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
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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