About the team
Amazon Advertising is a worldwide advertising business spanning desktop, mobile, and connected devices, with ads on Amazon and a network of third-party publishers. Its Traffic Quality team builds technology to detect invalid traffic and ensure advertiser spending reaches human audiences while protecting against ad fraud. The Security Engineering team researches advertising fraud threats, develops detection and mitigation techniques, and collaborates with security teams across Amazon.
Responsibilities
•Research programmatic advertising risks and emerging threats
•Hunt for threats, including on the dark web, to track advertising fraud tactics and risks
•Build techniques to detect and mitigate threats by reverse-engineering software, identifying network-layer signatures, and developing client-side scripts
•Collaborate with internal security teams to share intelligence and develop durable detection techniques
•Identify and mitigate botnets with internal security teams
•Work with the ethical hacking community to obtain standard tactics, source code, and information on malware and botnets
•Influence leaders across the company to improve security and protect advertiser trust
•Proactively identify problems with product and security teams and suggest solutions
Requirements
•Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
•Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP
•Programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, or a similar object-oriented language
•Passion for reverse engineering, malware analysis, threat detection, and risk hunting
Nice to have
•Experience with AWS products and services, threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security
Conditions
No conditions specified in the posting.
