Cloud Infrastructure Security Engineer

About The Role & Team

Amplitude’s mission is to be the operating system for digital business. At its core, Amplitude provides a new window into digital customer behavior that helps businesses answer the question: “Where do we place our digital bets to maximize growth?” We approach challenges with humility, we take ownership of our contributions, and our growth mindset pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

The Trust and Information Security team is a blend of security engineers and security-focused software engineers working in concert to develop and maintain security best-practices that are incorporated in every stage of the software development process. We continuously advocate and train engineers on trending security issues, assist with third-party security assessments, and manage external traditional as well as crowd-sourced security penetration testing engagements.

We’re looking for a cloud infrastructure security engineer who is well-accustomed and thrives on working in a fast-paced and fun environment, with a deep understanding of cloud security.

As a Cloud Infrastructure Security Engineer, you will: 

• Up-level Amplitude’s cloud infrastructure security controls
• Identify and prioritize potential risks in cloud infrastructure designs, implementation, and deployment.
• Use infrastructure-as-code to deploy and enforce security controls.

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• The ability to adapt to engineering priorities without sacrificing security.
• 7+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience at least half of which is in infrastructure security.  
• Expertise in developing and enforcing secure-by-default templates in cloud automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, etc. 
• Demonstrated the ability to successfully design and build security components of Kubernetes in AWS or another cloud environment. 
• Understand the unique security risks and capabilities with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and are able to communicate security issues to engineers.
• Are experienced in deploying, automating, maintaining, and securing applications hosted on cloud computing platforms.

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, a 12-week parental leave, a generous Learning & Development stipend, and a full 10 year window to exercise your stock options.  And when our offices are open, we offer delicious in-office lunch, dinner, & snacks, and commuting benefits.

The Product: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform– we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to build on: a platform that enables companies to thrive. 

Amplitude powers digital upstarts like Calm and Peloton and technology leaders like Microsoft and Paypal, but also 100+ year old companies like Ford, as they rethink their digital revenue strategy.

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• Amplitude is a tech startup to bet your career on in 2021, according to Business Insider.
• Amplitude had a record year of growth in 2020 and grew employee headcount by 24%.
• Amplitude is one of the best software products on the market according to G2.
• Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
• More than 20% of the Fortune 100 are customers of Amplitude as are innovative brands such as Calm, Microsoft, Ford, NBC Universal, Hubspot, PayPal and Peloton.
• We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Amsterdam, London, Paris and Singapore.
• Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Amplitude’s D&I Commitment: Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive.

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