Sr. Security Engineer, Leo Security

About the role

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, w

Requirements

• Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• Key job responsibilities
• You will help define develop and implement Leo's vulnerability management program. You will advocate for the creation & deployment of new testing tools, and detection mechanisms. You will leverage support from automation teams that find discoverable vulnerabilities.
• You'll identify design & implementation defects and build compensating security controls. You'll support product development processes by providing consultation services on difficult security decisions.
• You will collaborate with business leaders to define security priorities. You will support product leaders by acting as a trusted advisor. You will support leaders by providing them with direction that makes security easy. You will help leaders measure their org's security execution. You'll guide teams towards outcomes that produce products that safely handle customer data.
• You will collaborate with builder teams to assess technical debt and risk. You will provide strategic direction that addresses vulnerabilities and fortifies our products. You will be a resource that leads the burn down of long-term risk.
• You will instill a security culture in builder teams. You will mentor builders who aspire to become security advocates & security engineers via 1-1 sessions & office hours.
• And last of all, you will hack some really cool bleeding edge tech!
• A day in the life
• In this highly dynamic role, you'll be accountable for deciding where your time investments provide the most value. You will have a blend of building preventive and detective controls. Teams will reach out for ideas on how to handle a wide variety of security problems. You can anticipate implementation questions like
• "What's the paved path for vulnerability management?"
• "We've experienced an incident and need to perform 5 why's analysis to identify and correct the problem that produced the incident."
• When you're not working on responding to the questions of builder teams, you will be evaluating overall org performance to identify architectural defects and proposing new security scanning capability to correct problems in the org. You will help Amazon maintain a high bar for customer security.

Additional Information

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Redmond, WA, USA Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Have you wanted an opportunity to secure an advanced satellite based broadband telecom service? The Leo Security team owns the security of product and operations of Leo end-to-end. We provide the necessary infrastructure and mechanisms to ensure the security of our satellite constellation and to protect the integrity and confidentiality of our customer data. Our team drives the research & development, deployment and operation of several mission-critical security systems and mechanisms. You will work in a start-up like environment, backed by Amazon's infrastructure to bootstrap security mechanisms, and help instill the security culture in the organization. Export Control Requirement Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Key job responsibilities You will help define develop and implement Leo's vulnerability management program. You will advocate for the creation & deployment of new testing tools, and detection mechanisms. You will leverage support from automation teams that find discoverable vulnerabilities. You'll identify design & implementation defects and build compensating security controls. You'll support product development processes by providing consultation services on difficult security decisions. You will collaborate with business leaders to define security priorities. You will support product leaders by acting as a trusted advisor. You will support leaders by providing them with direction that makes security easy. You will help leaders measure their org's security execution. You'll guide teams towards outcomes that produce products that safely handle customer data. You will collaborate with builder teams to assess technical debt and risk. You will provide strategic direction that addresses vulnerabilities and fortifies our products. You will be a resource that leads the burn down of long-term risk. You will instill a security culture in builder teams. You will mentor builders who aspire to become security advocates & security engineers via 1-1 sessions & office hours. And last of all, you will hack some really cool bleeding edge tech! A day in the life In this highly dynamic role, you'll be accountable for deciding where your time investments provide the most value. You will have a blend of building preventive and detective controls. Teams will reach out for ideas on how to handle a wide variety of security problems. You can anticipate implementation questions like "What's the paved path for vulnerability management?" "We've experienced an incident and need to perform 5 why's analysis to identify and correct the problem that produced the incident." When you're not working on responding to the questions of builder teams, you will be evaluating overall org performance to identify architectural defects and proposing new security scanning capability to correct problems in the org. You will help Amazon maintain a high bar for customer security.

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