Security Engineer - Kernel and Hypervisors, EC2

Job summary
We are looking for a Security Engineer to join the Hypervisor Security Team. You will take ownership of security tooling in support of our security mission, and work on low level security issues in operating system kernels and hypervisors that form our virtualization stack.

Besides working on the actual code security, you will develop and use scalable tooling for security testing, fuzzing, and continually delivering secure kernels, hypervisors, and operating system components.

Key job responsibilities

• Evaluate security problems in Kernels and Hypervisors, and related components
• Reproduce issues, propose security mitigations, and contribute to their deployment
• Maintain and improve security tooling
• Use and develop code analysis tools, security scanners, and fuzzing tools
• Continuous process improvements

A day in the life

• Develop solutions for your technical goals
• Review code from your peers and discuss your own code
• Contribute to and review design documents
• Grab lunch outside the office or meet up on the roof terrace
• Meet with peers from your team and the wider org to exchange ideas
• Over time, start interviewing candidates

About the team
The Amazon Development Center in Dresden, Germany, is building the foundation of the Amazon EC2 virtualization platforms. Our teams are responsible for the development and maintenance of the Amazon hypervisors and Linux Kernels that make up the engine of the Amazon EC2 compute servers. The Dresden based teams also own the development and support of the Linux operating system kernel and the supporting user space components running on almost every Amazon Server worldwide. Being part of Amazon means constantly driving innovation and working on complex technical hallenges every day.

The Hypervisor security team owns the reactive and proactive security for large parts of our

What is Amazon EC2? https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Basic Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Programming experience in C and scripting language like Ruby, Python or Bash
• Affinity to low level security
• Proficiency in the German language is not required for this position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in virtualization (Xen, KVM) technologies
• Experience in static code analysis, fuzzing and security testing
• Experience in finding and fixing security issues in code

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