What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security Engineer II, Alexa and Fire TV Security position at Amazon?
Description
In this role you provide guidance to the Alexa and Fire TV business and engineering teams on how to protect our customers and their data. You'll participate in feature and product designs, review new and existing services, and help engineering teams mitigate the risks. You'll also contribute to developing detection tools and promote security automation. Your goal is to discover the risks early, when they're easier and cheaper to address, automating this discovery and mitigation whenever possible.
This role is primarily "blue team" defensive work, but it helps to have a "red team" point of view sometimes.
Key job responsibilities
Whether you work in the Seattle area or Sunnyvale, you'll have other security engineers around to collaborate with on novel risks and to brainstorm fixes.
You'll occasionally be on-call, routing some tickets to specialists while taking ownership of other issues raised by Alexa and Fire TV engineering, privacy, business and security teams. Your solutions will build trust with our customer teams, diving deep and delivering practical mechanisms to reduce risk, finding the best solution for each unique business.
You'll regularly meet with the product engineering teams to learn about their work and to help them adopt security best practices.
Basic Qualifications
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2925574
In this role you provide guidance to the Alexa and Fire TV business and engineering teams on how to protect our customers and their data. You'll participate in feature and product designs, review new and existing services, and help engineering teams mitigate the risks. You'll also contribute to developing detection tools and promote security automation. Your goal is to discover the risks early, when they're easier and cheaper to address, automating this discovery and mitigation whenever possible.
This role is primarily "blue team" defensive work, but it helps to have a "red team" point of view sometimes.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop a relationship with the business teams to understand their products, the risks, and the mitigations that support their goals.
- Learn and teach the security policies, best practices and paved paths.
- Review application architectures. The environment will typically be a Linux-based OS running on AWS, though sometimes on a device.
- Develop threat models
- Review security controls in code and cloud configurations
- Assist teams with mitigations through documentation and proof of concept demonstrations in code and configurations.
- Assist in developing automated detection software for both pre-launch and post-launch risks.
- Assist in gathering metrics on the effectiveness of our security work
Whether you work in the Seattle area or Sunnyvale, you'll have other security engineers around to collaborate with on novel risks and to brainstorm fixes.
You'll occasionally be on-call, routing some tickets to specialists while taking ownership of other issues raised by Alexa and Fire TV engineering, privacy, business and security teams. Your solutions will build trust with our customer teams, diving deep and delivering practical mechanisms to reduce risk, finding the best solution for each unique business.
You'll regularly meet with the product engineering teams to learn about their work and to help them adopt security best practices.
Basic Qualifications
- 3 years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C or similar object oriented language experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- 2 years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Experience with streaming protocols, including STUN, TURN, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, WebRTC, MQTT, and WebSockets
- Experience with Android OS security controls.
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2925574
Salary : $136,000 - $212,800
