{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5ffdc9de72def38289e2e151","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5ffdc9de72def38289e2e151","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5ffdc9de72def38289e2e151","title":"Sr Security Engineer, Amazon Leo","description":"DESCRIPTION\nWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:\n\nArlington, VA, USA | Redmond, WA, USA\n\nAmazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.\n\nHave you wanted an opportunity to secure an advanced satellite broadband telecom service? The Amazon Leo team owns the security of product and operations of Amazon Leo end-to-end. We provide the necessary infrastructure and mechanisms to ensure the security of our satellite constellation and to protect the integrity and confidentiality of our customer data. Our team drives the research & development, deployment and operation of several mission-critical security systems and mechanisms. As a Senior Security Engineer on the Amazon Leo Incident Response team, you work tactically with both internal and external stakeholders to respond to and root cause security issues and solve them at massive scale. The role requires you to think strategically to develop and implement changes to drive automation, scalability and continuous progress for the organization.\n\nSecurity Engineers in this role will be founding members of the Leo Incident Response Operations (LIRO) team, a new group which drives emergent security issues across Leo environments to closure. LIRO works in close partnership with other AmSec security teams to contain, eradicate and recover from threats to Leo's highly differentiated environments.\n\nExport Control Requirement\nDue to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen.\n\nKey job responsibilities\n\nSupply oversight of in-flight security issues.\nTriage new incoming issues to determine the level of risk they present to Amazon Leo, and then accordingly prioritize its remediation in conjunction with the impacted builder teams.\nCommunicate the state of these issues to various audiences, both technical and non-technical, at various levels of seniority (up to and including Chief Information Security Officer).\nEscalate issues to senior Amazon Leo leadership if you feel your issues are not being treated at the correct pace due to their impact to ensure that we are putting customers first.\nExplore building and improving our tooling to make your own life easier, and at the same time, sharing that benefit with all our engineers globally.\n\nAn ideal candidate should be able to conduct most of the following:\n\nParticipate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon.\nDemonstrate high ability and tolerance for context switching and interruptions while staying productive and effective.\nDevelop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while keeping an acceptable level of risk.\nHelp with recruiting activities and administrative work.\nMentoring of junior staff and proactive knowledge sharing within the team and across the company.\nFulfill regular on-call responsibilities.\n\nA day in the life\nIn the morning you will take handover from the previous shift and be delegated ownership of various security issues presently in-flight. The issues could relate to any of our Amazon Leo products, so you will often need to learn on the go.\nYou will engage various stakeholders, such as the internal builder teams who actually needs to fix the issue, along with Amazon Leo Leadership, Legal, and the leadership from the impacted team.\nAs the day progresses, new issues will be automatically assigned to you based on your workload and you will be responsible for triaging them, determining their level of impact, and work towards resolving them at the appropriate pace.\nAt the end of the shift, you will document all the issues you are tracking so they can be taken over by the site relieving you.\nYou will have down time and space to work on strategic projects to improve the quality and/or speed of your team’s deliveries, or to raise the security bar across Amazon Leo at scale.\n\nAbout the team\nDiverse Experiences\nAmazon 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.\n\nWhy Amazon Security?\nAt 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\nexperience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.\n\nInclusive Team Culture\nIn 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.\n\nTraining & Career Growth\nWe’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.\n\nWork/Life Balance\nWe 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.\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience\n5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience\n4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience\nExperience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent\nExperience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services\n\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\n\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.\n\nThe base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.\n\nUSA, VA, Arlington - 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually\nUSA, WA, Redmond - 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually","company":"Amazon.com Services","rawCompany":"amazoncom services","city":"Arlington","state":"VA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-14T11:11:46.551Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.05","title":"Information Security Engineers","slug":"information-security-engineers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1212.00","title":"Information Security Analysts","slug":"information-security-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Sr Security Engineer, Amazon Leo","description":"DESCRIPTION\nWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:\n\nArlington, VA, USA | Redmond, WA, USA\n\nAmazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. 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Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.\n\nTraining & Career Growth\nWe’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.\n\nWork/Life Balance\nWe 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.\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience\n5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience\n4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience\nExperience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent\nExperience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services\n\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\n\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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