Sr. Security Engineer, Leo Security

Amazon Leo 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.

We are a specialized security team that sits inside a global satellite

communications business. Our job is to make sure security lessons become

permanent: when a security event happens, we find the root cause, close the

immediate gap, and build the mechanism that keeps it closed. We watch across the

whole environment, spot the trends others are too busy to chase, and turn them

into initiatives that measurably reduce risk.

We work shoulder to shoulder with the builder teams designing, launching, and

operating the product, and we partner closely with incident response, detection,

and enterprise security functions. Over the coming years our focus is shifting

further upstream: getting ahead of incidents through proactive posture

improvement, hunting for gaps before they are exploited, and investing in

automation so security scales with the business rather than against it. If you

want your work to protect customers of a system being built at a scale few

companies attempt, you will find that purpose here.

Export Control Requirement

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

citizen or national.

Key job responsibilities

You will analyze the security events observed across Amazon Leo, separating each

one into the immediate fixes it demands and the longer-term, systemic trends it

reveals across the organization.

You will prioritize this work by the severity and business impact of the threat

to Leo, concentrating your effort on the most serious security issues and making

sound risk-based trade-offs to deliver against them on time.

You will drive immediate fixes to closure by identifying the right team or

individual to own each task, and by creating the mechanisms needed to ensure

security outcomes are prioritized and tracked to completion across teams with

competing priorities.

You will lead time-boxed Find and Fix missions to investigate and clarify

emerging security trends, turning early and ambiguous signals into a validated

understanding of the underlying problem.

You will own security initiatives end-to-end that resolve the root cause of

systemic trends, favoring centralized, secure-by-default controls that

measurably and durably reduce risk across the organization.

You will serve as tier-3 escalation support during security incidents, advise

partner teams on difficult security decisions, and advocate for new detection

mechanisms and testing tools that reduce security operations cost over time.

A day in the life

In this highly dynamic role, you will decide where your time investments deliver

the most security value, balancing proactive posture-improvement work against

reactive support when security events arise. Teams across the business will

reach out for guidance on a wide variety of security problems, and you can

anticipate questions like:

"What's the right way to handle authentication tokens in service-to-service

communications?"

"We're planning a confidential new product launch and need to define its

security requirements."

"We just had a security event and need to run a root cause analysis to identify

and correct what produced it."

When you're not responding to builder teams, you will evaluate overall security

posture across the organization to surface architectural defects, hunt for gaps

before they become incidents, and propose new security initiatives that correct

systemic problems. Through this blend of consultation, investigation, and

long-term mechanism building, you will help maintain a high bar for customer

security.

About the team

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.

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. Basic

Qualifications

• - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a
• related field
• - 5+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks,
• identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud
• computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration
• testing experience
• - 3+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and
• operating system experience
• - 5+ years of driving cross organizational security initiatives.
• - 2+ years experience using AI to automate security.
• - This position requires U.S. citizenship in order to access AWS GovCloud

Preferred Qualifications

• - Experience working in identifying security issues
• and risks, and developing mitigation plans
• - Experience in threat hunting, detection engineering, or product/application
• security, including moving from a security hypothesis to a validated detection,
• control, or remediation within a time-boxed engagement
• - Experience owning security remediation initiatives end-to-end, including
• scoping the problem, driving cross-team execution without direct authority, and
• measuring the resulting outcome
• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
• of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
• Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely
• and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to
• standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively
• and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional
• customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company
• policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship
• with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties
• and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company
• policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and
• respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and
• safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los
• Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified
• applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for
• employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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• The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package
• will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final
• compensation will be determined based on factors including experience,
• qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits
• including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &
• AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health
• Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
• Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
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• USA, CA, San Francisco - 183,000.00 - 247,600.00 USD annually