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Security Engineer III, Customer Service Security

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    2 days ago

    Job Description

    Do you want to protect customers at a global scale while seeing the direct impact of your work? The Customer Service Security team at Amazon is looking for a Systems Security Engineer who thrives in ambiguity and is passionate about engineering solutions that reduce security risk across customer service operations. With billions of customer contacts per year spanning more than 40 countries, the security challenges here are complex and the stakes are real.

    In this role, you will partner directly with business teams to identify security risks, design pragmatic controls, and build solutions that simultaneously improve security outcomes, customer experiences, and associate experiences. You will own security architecture decisions, lead risk mitigation discussions, and construct frameworks that enable others to apply your work in a repeatable way. If you are a self-starter who can navigate undefined problems and turn them into scalable security solutions, we want to hear from you.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Lead security reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for customer service systems, identifying pragmatic approaches to mitigate risks while enabling teams to launch securely.
    • Design and build security controls and engineering solutions that protect customer data and empower secure customer contacts at scale.
    • Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams to understand emerging risks and define security strategies where none yet exist.
    • Create security frameworks, runbooks, and rubrics for new problem domains that enable other engineers to apply consistent, repeatable security practices.
    • Communicate security risk and design decisions clearly in writing to both technical and non-technical audiences, and mentor other security engineers on best practices.

    A day in the life

    You will operate independently, engaging directly with business and engineering teams to uncover security risks that do not come with predefined solutions. On a given day you might be conducting a threat model for a new customer contact workflow, writing a security framework that other teams will adopt, or reviewing architecture proposals to ensure they meet the security bar. Much of your time is spent navigating ambiguity - translating business context into concrete security requirements and building the path forward. You will balance proactive roadmap-driven work with responding to emerging security concerns as they arise.

    About the team

    The CS Security team is dedicated to reducing security risk across Amazon"s customer service organization. We engineer solutions that keep customer data secure while enabling fast, high-quality customer and associate experiences at massive scale. Our work touches billions of customer contacts annually across more than 40 countries, giving you the opportunity to build relationships across the company and scale your solutions globally. We are investing in new engineering capabilities to make every customer contact more secure, and this is an exciting time to join as we shape that future.

    Diverse Experiences

    Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

    Why Amazon Security?

    At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

    Inclusive Team Culture

    In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

    Training & Career Growth

    We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

    Work/Life Balance

    We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Computer Securityunmatched
    • Concreteunmatched
    • Customer Experienceunmatched
    • Customer Service Operationsunmatched
    • Customer Service Systemsunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Customer/Client Researchunmatched
    • Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
    • Healthcareunmatched
    • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Model Reviewunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Retailunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • Risk Analysisunmatched
    • Risk Managementunmatched
    • Security Architectureunmatched
    • Security Attacksunmatched
    • Security Designunmatched
    • Systems Analysisunmatched
    • Systems Engineeringunmatched
    • Technical Writingunmatched
    • Threat Modelingunmatched
    • Threat and risk analysis (TRA)unmatched

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