Security Engineering Manager

Job summary
Amazon Devices and Services is an inventive research and development organization that designs and engineers Amazon devices, from Kindle to Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Are you interested in being part of a top-notch security team covering Amazon devices (including Kindle, FireTV, Halo health band, Astro robots, etc.)? If you want to keep customers data safe through creative innovations, we have a job for you! We are looking for a strong leader to create and grow a strong team while spearheading strategic direction for securing web applications/services that enable amazing customer experiences on Amazon devices.

As a manager, you will have an enormous opportunity to lead and expand a team of top notch security engineers, drive down systemic and tactical security risks while innovating to scale our detection/prevention mechanisms to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation. You will keep customers data safe by identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities/risks by providing actionable guidance to product teams. You will help your team members realize their true potential through coaching and feedback and lead with empathy. You will drive long term security improvements by driving your team to identify 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.
Note: While the majority of our Security roles are based in the Bay Area, CA and Seattle, WA areas, by applying to this position your application will be considered for all locations we hire for in the Americas, Europe, etc., and Virtual Locations.

Key job responsibilities
Key Job Responsibilities Include:

. Recruiting, coaching and scaling a team of world class security engineers; providing strategic and tactical oversight to the team and the program.
. Defining, revising and improving key metrics to measure and improve team level as well as individual level efficiency.
. Defining a services security roadmap; aligning with key business stakeholders to ensure that objectives are focused on areas of key concerns for internal and external Amazon customers; providing technical oversight for all phases of the software security lifecycle.
. Creating and driving a culture 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.

Basic Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field or relevant work experience
· 5+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of hands on Secure software development experience.
· 5+ years managing and building teams (including coaching and mentoring)

Preferred Qualifications

· Master’s degree
· Strong and proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience and stakeholders
· Significant experience and detailed technical knowledge in one of the following areas: security engineering, cryptography, authentication/authorization and security protocols.
· Experience with threat modeling or other risk identification techniques, and risk management
· Experience managing a team of strong security engineers to identify strategic and tactical risk.
· 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
· Excellent oral and written communication skills


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