3 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead complex digital forensic investigations end to end, including customer consultation, forensically sound data acquisition, analysis, and reporting.
- Investigate evidence from laptops, mobile devices, AWS cloud resources, and large log sets for insider-threat, misconduct, and e-Discovery cases.
- Set technical direction for investigation quality, soundness, and speed, and mentor or unblock other engineers.
- Build customer relationships across Amazon Security and Legal, scope appropriate data, and develop new casework.
- Own forensic engineering projects from concept through production, primarily using Python and AWS CDK.
- Develop acquisition and processing methods, scale evidence workflows, automate quality checks, and use code and AI to improve customer outcomes.
- Participate in a rotating one-week on-call schedule for fault-tolerant systems and active security threats, addressing root causes.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- At least 4 years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Preferred: experience with threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life plan options, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are supported, with work based in the DMV or Seattle, including Annapolis Junction, Arlington, Herndon, or Seattle locations.
- The role provides ongoing training, knowledge-sharing, DEI learning opportunities, and career-development resources.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.