Sr Security Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network, aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks, including households, schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies. The Amazon Leo team is responsible for the end-to-end security of the product and operations, providing infrastructure and mechanisms to secure the satellite constellation and protect customer data integrity and confidentiality. This involves research & development, deployment, and operation of mission-critical security systems. As a Senior Security Engineer on the Amazon Leo Incident Response team, you will tactically engage with internal and external stakeholders to respond to, root cause, and resolve security issues at scale. The role requires strategic thinking to develop and implement changes that drive automation, scalability, and continuous progress. This position is a founding member of the Leo Incident Response Operations (LIRO) team, which manages emergent security issues across Leo environments in close partnership with other AmSec security teams to contain, eradicate, and recover from threats.

Requirements

• 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen.

Nice To Haves

• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services

Responsibilities

• Supply oversight of in-flight security issues.
• Triage new incoming issues to determine the level of risk they present to Amazon Leo, and then accordingly prioritize its remediation in conjunction with the impacted builder teams.
• Communicate the state of these issues to various audiences, both technical and non-technical, at various levels of seniority (up to and including Chief Information Security Officer).
• Escalate issues to senior Amazon Leo leadership if you feel your issues are not being treated at the correct pace due to their impact to ensure that we are putting customers first.
• Explore building and improving our tooling to make your own life easier, and at the same time, sharing that benefit with all our engineers globally.
• Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon.
• Demonstrate high ability and tolerance for context switching and interruptions while staying productive and effective.
• Develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while keeping an acceptable level of risk.
• Help with recruiting activities and administrative work.
• Mentoring of junior staff and proactive knowledge sharing within the team and across the company.
• Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed