Security Engineer II, Stores Red Team
Amazon · Virtual, United States · Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in Virtual, United States. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Ruby, Swift. Compensation is listed at $159,300–$202,400 per year.
- Role
- Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Virtual, United States
- Department
- Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersApplication 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…