Software Privacy Engineer, Devices & Services Trust, Privacy, and Accessibility (TPA)
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Job Location:
Bellevue, WA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Devices and Services Trust and Privacy (DSTP) is responsible for maintaining and raising the trust bar for Amazon customers across a diverse set of 30 Devices and Services (D&S). DSTP offers horizontal services for builders to ensure trust privacy and accessibility is built into our products and services. We also build customer-facing capabilities that provides customers with control and transparency and reducing privacy risk while enabling partner teams to innovate with appropriate guardrails for content moderation privacy accessibility and trust.
The DSTP team is looking for a passionate Security and Privacy Incident Response Engineer who can lead the response to privacy and data protection issues across Devices & Services. You must thrive in dynamic/ambiguous situations and think like both an attacker and defender while working through the entire incident response lifecycle. Youll be working in a global team environment where clear and accurate communication and collaboration on privacy and data protection issues is critical.
In this role you will apply your creative and critical problem solving skills to quickly contain incidents and then work with cross-functional teams to remediate the root cause. You must have a passion for engineering solutions to complex privacy and data governance challenges and recognize and fill gaps in capabilities. Above all you should be passionate about privacy information security the ever-changing threat landscape and privacy/security automation and tooling.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage escalated privacy and trust risk events/cases from start to finish; write detailed case notes reports summaries short and long-term recommendations and trade-off analyses for all audiences including senior leadership.
- Interact with and influence other teams (e.g. service teams engineering product legal); identify experts and stakeholders on other teams to support decisions on containing incidents or mitigating privacy and trust risks; build consensus and recommendations based on analysis of the nature of potential violations to Privacy Policies Promises or Legal/Regulatory requirements.
- Own successful delivery of large impactful and highly cross-functional program initiatives while simultaneously tracking a set of smaller projects. Demonstrate comfort with handling technical investigations and analysis and provide actionable recommendations to senior leadership audience with minimal supervision.
- Develop deep knowledge of global privacy and data governance obligations processes best practices and solutions utilized by Amazon. Utilize this knowledge to provide recommendations and consultation to improve DSTP processes and tooling and reduce risk through control automation and enhancements.
- Establish metrics and regular reporting/escalation mechanisms for measuring results progress and gaps in performance and compliance.
- Communicate plans status and critical issues clearly and effectively.
- Support deep dive assessments and ad-hoc data analysis requests.
A day in the life
This is an inherently cross-functional role where you will work directly with engineers product managers policy and compliance specialists legal PR Marketing and other Amazon builders to help them identify expediently contain/mitigate privacy incidents and risks and implement a Privacy by Design and Default culture. You will use your investigative and/or analytical experience and demonstrate your prowess and experience in writing and briefing complex cases. You will track risk assessment validation adjudication and remediation actions and ensure that teams prioritize and execute those tasks in a timely fashion. You will be responsible for knowing the ins and outs of impacted systems and ensure the impacted builders/owners follow the correct paths to compliance. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment with fast delivery time rapid iteration and data-driven decision-making.
About the team
This role is a part of our Trust Reviews and Incident Management (TRIM) team within TPA. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional enabled to take on increasingly complex tasks as their careers progress.
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5 years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography system administration and network security experience
- CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) or CFR (CyberSec First Responder) or Cloud or CySA (CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst) or GCED (GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender) or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or PenTest
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- 3 years of programming in Python Ruby Go Swift C or similar object oriented language experience
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our 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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The DSTP team is looking for a passionate Security and Privacy Incident Response Engineer who can lead the response to privacy and data protection issues across Devices & Services. You must thrive in dynamic/ambiguous situations and think like both an attacker and defender while working through the entire incident response lifecycle. Youll be working in a global team environment where clear and accurate communication and collaboration on privacy and data protection issues is critical.
In this role you will apply your creative and critical problem solving skills to quickly contain incidents and then work with cross-functional teams to remediate the root cause. You must have a passion for engineering solutions to complex privacy and data governance challenges and recognize and fill gaps in capabilities. Above all you should be passionate about privacy information security the ever-changing threat landscape and privacy/security automation and tooling.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage escalated privacy and trust risk events/cases from start to finish; write detailed case notes reports summaries short and long-term recommendations and trade-off analyses for all audiences including senior leadership.
- Interact with and influence other teams (e.g. service teams engineering product legal); identify experts and stakeholders on other teams to support decisions on containing incidents or mitigating privacy and trust risks; build consensus and recommendations based on analysis of the nature of potential violations to Privacy Policies Promises or Legal/Regulatory requirements.
- Own successful delivery of large impactful and highly cross-functional program initiatives while simultaneously tracking a set of smaller projects. Demonstrate comfort with handling technical investigations and analysis and provide actionable recommendations to senior leadership audience with minimal supervision.
- Develop deep knowledge of global privacy and data governance obligations processes best practices and solutions utilized by Amazon. Utilize this knowledge to provide recommendations and consultation to improve DSTP processes and tooling and reduce risk through control automation and enhancements.
- Establish metrics and regular reporting/escalation mechanisms for measuring results progress and gaps in performance and compliance.
- Communicate plans status and critical issues clearly and effectively.
- Support deep dive assessments and ad-hoc data analysis requests.
A day in the life
This is an inherently cross-functional role where you will work directly with engineers product managers policy and compliance specialists legal PR Marketing and other Amazon builders to help them identify expediently contain/mitigate privacy incidents and risks and implement a Privacy by Design and Default culture. You will use your investigative and/or analytical experience and demonstrate your prowess and experience in writing and briefing complex cases. You will track risk assessment validation adjudication and remediation actions and ensure that teams prioritize and execute those tasks in a timely fashion. You will be responsible for knowing the ins and outs of impacted systems and ensure the impacted builders/owners follow the correct paths to compliance. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment with fast delivery time rapid iteration and data-driven decision-making.
About the team
This role is a part of our Trust Reviews and Incident Management (TRIM) team within TPA. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional enabled to take on increasingly complex tasks as their careers progress.
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5 years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography system administration and network security experience
- CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) or CFR (CyberSec First Responder) or Cloud or CySA (CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst) or GCED (GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender) or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or PenTest
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- 3 years of programming in Python Ruby Go Swift C or similar object oriented language experience
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our 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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The 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 WA Bellevue - 159300.00 - 202400.00 USD annually
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