Job Description

Senior Security Engineer, Kuiper Security

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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

• Arlington, VA, USA
• Redmond, WA, USA
• San Francisco, CA, USA
• Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Project Kuiper Overview

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide lowlatency, highspeed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

The Kuiper Security team owns the security of product and operations of Project Kuiper endtoend. 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, deployment and operation of several missioncritical security systems and mechanisms. You will work in a startup like environment, backed by Amazons infrastructure to bootstrap security mechanisms, and help instill the security culture in the organization.

Export Control Requirement

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Define, develop and implement Kuipers detection pipeline.
• Advocate for the creation & deployment of new testing tools and detection mechanisms.
• Leverage support from automation teams to discover relevant vulnerabilities.
• Identify design & implementation defects and build compensating detective controls.
• Provide security consultation on difficult decisions throughout product development processes.
• Collaborate with business leaders to define security priorities and act as a trusted advisor.
• Help leaders measure their organizations security execution and guide teams toward safe product outcomes.
• Assess technical debt and risk with builder teams, providing strategic direction to address vulnerabilities.
• Instill a security culture in builder teams, mentoring aspiring security advocates through 11 sessions and office hours.
• Assist Red Teams in identifying security testing priorities, scoping penetration tests, and conducting deepdives.
• Investigate emerging security issues, root cause them, and devise detection mechanisms.
• Enjoy hacking cuttingedge technology.

A Day in the Life

In this highly dynamic role, you will be accountable for deciding where your time investments provide the most value. You will build preventive and detective controls, evaluate overall org performance, and propose new security scanning capabilities to correct problems in the organization. Youll ask questions such as:

• Whats the paved path for vulnerability management?
• We need to define security requirements for a confidential new product launch.
• Weve experienced an incident and need to perform 5why analysis to identify and correct the problem that produced the incident.

You will help Amazon maintain a high bar for customer security.

About The Team

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, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (noninternship) in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• Experience (noninternship) in industrybased security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• 2+ years of full secure software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• 4+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review experience in common programming languages.
• 5+ years of experience in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing security products.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques.
• Experience with security in serviceoriented architectures/microservices and web services.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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Job Tags

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