Sr Security Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to
deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of
existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses,
and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations
operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Have you wanted an opportunity to secure an advanced satellite broadband telecom
service? The Amazon Leo team owns the security of product and operations of
Amazon 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. As a Senior Security Engineer on the Amazon Leo Incident
Response team, you work tactically with both internal and external stakeholders
to respond to and root cause security issues and solve them at massive scale.
The role requires you to think strategically to develop and implement changes to
drive automation, scalability and continuous progress for the organization.

Security Engineers in this role will be founding members of the Leo Incident
Response Operations (LIRO) team, a new group which drives emergent security
issues across Leo environments to closure. LIRO works in close partnership with
other AmSec security teams to contain, eradicate and recover from threats to
Leo's highly differentiated environments.

Export Control Requirement
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S.
citizen.

In the morning you will take handover from the previous shift and be delegated
ownership of various security issues presently in-flight. The issues could
relate to any of our Amazon Leo products, so you will often need to learn on the
go.
You will engage various stakeholders, such as the internal builder teams who
actually needs to fix the issue, along with Amazon Leo Leadership, Legal, and
the leadership from the impacted team.
As the day progresses, new issues will be automatically assigned to you based on
your workload and you will be responsible for triaging them, determining their
level of impact, and work towards resolving them at the appropriate pace.
At the end of the shift, you will document all the issues you are tracking so
they can be taken over by the site relieving you.
You will have down time and space to work on strategic projects to improve the
quality and/or speed of your team’s deliveries, or to raise the security bar
across Amazon Leo at scale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the
expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements
are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed