Security Engineering Lead, Amazon
Audible Security
$143.3-247.6k
Office located in Newark, NJ; Cambridge, MA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$143.3-247.6k
Office located in Newark, NJ; Cambridge, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Engineering or Computer Science, or other relevant degree
- 7+ years experience in security engineering, in areas including application security, secure SDLC, penetration testing, manual code review, threat modeling, cyber-resiliency, incident response, and risk mitigation
- 1+ years experience in a technical leadership (IC) role
- Hands-on technical expertise in building effective security solutions at large scale
- Experience in mentoring an engineering community on complex technical issues or ambiguous technical challenges
Desirable
- MS in Engineering or Computer Science, or other relevant degree
- Strong understanding of web application, networking, and cloud technologies
- Experience in cyber-resiliency: DDoS and bot protection / prevention skills are a HUGE plus
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
- Ability to identify security issues and risks, and develop mitigation plans or solutions
- Expert knowledge of web and mobile application vulnerabilities, attacks, and mitigation methods Demonstrated experience using communication skills to advocate security for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in driving large scale, cross-organization initiatives
- Sharp analytical abilities and proven innovation skills to unblock adoption of security mechanisms
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., SANS/GIAC, OSCP/OSWA/OSWE, CompTIA, Microsoft, Linux, AWS)
What the job involves
- As a Security Engineering Leader at Audible you will advocate for information security throughout all our software development and business processes
- You will work with other Security Engineers, Application Developers, System Engineers and Business Leaders to protect our customers and Audible’s business
- Audible Information Security team is looking for an experienced Security Engineering Leader to join our world class team. We are obsessed with protecting customer trust. We are a hands-on team working to protect our computer networks, servers, applications and data assets
- Drive the security architecture of the industry leading technology underlying the Audible web and mobile applications and services to define and implement secure-by-default and defense-in-depth strategies
- Partner with the developer teams developing our services, and contribute security expertise to the architecture and design of Audible systems
- Apply your knowledge to conduct or guide deep testing of these systems to uncover security issues both manually and using developing automation tools as needed to support your work
- Research new techniques, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors in these components to proactively drive security improvement across each functional area
- Play a leadership role in Audible InfoSec and Audible development community setting direction for security of key technologies and serving as a subject matter expert resource for security engineers and business leaders inside and outside of your organization
- Apply your security and business knowledge to drive secure and pragmatic improvements broadly to Audible services, making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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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