Senior Security Engineering Manager, Amazon
Hardware Security, Device Security
$187.5-324.1k
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Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$187.5-324.1k
More information about location
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field or relevant work experience
- 10+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of hands on hardware security experience
- 10+ years managing and building teams (including coaching and mentoring)
- Strong and proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience and stakeholders
- Experience managing a team of strong security engineers to identify strategic and tactical risk
Desirable
- Master’s degree
- 10+ years of risk assessment and vulnerability research and enabling organizations making decisions
- Significant experience and detailed technical knowledge in one of the following areas: security engineering, chipset and system security, cryptography, authentication and security protocols
- Experience with threat modeling or other risk identification techniques, and risk management
- Experience partnering and influencing cross functional engineering, QA and testing teams to drive security improvements in complex environments
- Experience driving prioritization of security risks/vulnerabilities and ensuring that they are properly understood by the business and fixed and/or mitigated
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations and drive actions
What the job involves
- As a Senior Manager at Amazon Devices and Services Security, you will have an enormous opportunity to lead a team of top notch security engineers respected by product teams, drive down systemic and tactical risk to Amazon devices, and develop long lasting functions and features for Amazon devices
- You care deeply about keeping Amazon customers safe and therefore are passionate about mitigating vulnerabilities/risks by providing actionable guidance and solutions to product teams
- You drive long term security improvements by identifying key gaps and partner with product teams to drive security improvements at scale
- You're well-known for your excellent prioritization skills as well as your ability to communicate at all levels of an organization
- Fostering, coaching, recruiting and scaling a team of world class hardware security engineers; providing strategic and tactical oversight to the team and the program
- Defining a hardware security roadmap; aligning with key business stakeholders to ensure that objectives are focused on areas of key concern for internal and external Amazon customers; providing technical oversight for all phases of the hardware security lifecycle
- Creating and driving a culture of inclusion where team members are encouraged to take risks and push limits in order to challenge organizational security assumptions
- Partner with key stakeholders to drive implementation of security-related technical and process controls to remediate risks identified during engagements
- Provide updates to senior leadership on a regular cadence
- Provide verbal and written summaries of engagements to Amazon stakeholders and business owners
- Engage in retrospectives with the partners and create a feedback loop to foster continuous improvement of delivery mechanisms and approaches
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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