3 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own vulnerability management for Leo systems across a large and heterogeneous fleet, including coverage, prioritization, remediation, and risk reduction.
- Drive resolution of high-severity and systemic vulnerabilities and coordinate closure across responsible teams.
- Evaluate and simplify security mechanisms so secure practices are easy for builder teams to adopt.
- Advise builder teams and leaders on security risk, priorities, technical debt, and secure system design.
- Mentor builders who want to become security advocates or security engineers through one-on-one sessions and office hours.
- Translate compliance and regulatory requirements into concrete, auditable engineering controls and evidence.
- Define and report security metrics including coverage, time-to-remediate, SLA adherence, and residual risk.
- Propose security scanning capabilities and threat detections to address recurring architectural and coverage gaps.
- Coordinate organizational responses to high-severity vulnerabilities and drive systemic remediation.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks with command-line tools.
- At least 5 years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- Non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language.
- Non-internship experience identifying industry-based security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team leader.
- Preferred: experience applying threat modeling or other risk-identification techniques, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with security in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and web services.
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee due to export control requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units are offered.
- Flexible work hours and arrangements, ongoing training, knowledge-sharing, career-growth resources, and DEI learning experiences are available.
- The position is based in Redmond, Washington.
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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.