Security Engineer, Leo

Description

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Redmond, WA, USA.

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 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.

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

• 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.

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 need 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…