Sr. Security Engineer, Kuiper Security

Senior Security Engineer

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Redmond, WA, USA. Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Have you wanted an opportunity to secure an advanced satellite broadband telecom service? The Kuiper Security team owns the security of product and operations of Project Kuiper 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 Senior Security Engineer on the Kuiper Security 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. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Supply oversight of in-flight security issues.
• Triage new incoming issues to determine the level of risk they present to Kuiper, 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 Kuiper 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.

An Ideal Candidate Should Be Able To Conduct Most Of The Following:

• 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 extreme 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.

A Day In The Life

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 Kuiper 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 Kuiper Security 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 across Kuiper at scale.

About The Team

Diverse Experiences: 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, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.