1 day ago
Base Salary
$183k - $248k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze security events, separate immediate fixes from systemic trends, and prioritize work based on threat severity and business impact.
- Drive security fixes to closure by assigning ownership and creating mechanisms to track outcomes across teams.
- Lead time-boxed Find and Fix missions to investigate emerging security trends and validate underlying problems.
- Own end-to-end security initiatives using centralized, secure-by-default controls to reduce organizational risk.
- Provide tier-3 incident escalation support, advise partner teams, and advocate for detection mechanisms and testing tools.
- Evaluate security posture, hunt for gaps before exploitation, and use automation to scale security operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of combined experience in areas including application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, or penetration testing.
- 3+ years of experience with cloud-based solutions such as AWS or equivalent, systems, networks, and operating systems.
- 5+ years of driving cross-organizational security initiatives.
- 2+ years of experience using AI to automate security.
- U.S. citizenship is required to access AWS GovCloud.
- Preferred experience includes threat hunting, detection engineering, product or application security, security risk identification, mitigation planning, and end-to-end remediation ownership.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The position is based in San Francisco, California, and requires U.S. citizenship for AWS GovCloud access.
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.