Security Engineering Manager, Bug Bounty

Amazon's Bug Bounty team is growing and is seeking a manager to join the team. This individual will be working with customers and Amazon teams to secure Amazon's public facing services, applications, and websites. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of highly skilled individuals to solicit the identification of vulnerabilities from Customers and security researchers. You will then be responsible for ensuring vulnerabilities are remediated with urgency by partnering with service teams, ensuring what is learned through disclosure and mitigation improves the security of Amazon's software development life-cycle. This role will provide you with challenging leadership and technical opportunities and the chance to grow Amazon's Bug Bounty Program into the best on planet Earth.

You will be in direct contact with teams in a variety of business verticals, giving you first hand knowledge about how Amazon is built and how it operates at a deep, technical level. Additionally, you will leverage the knowledge you gain about Amazon to find new ways to drive improvements to Customer relationships, services, processes, and technologies throughout the company, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the continued safety and security of our Customers.

You will use your leadership and technical skills to continually lead the direction and evolution of the bug bounty program and collaboration with Customers and security researchers in order to maintain and raise Amazon's high security bar. You'll be backed up by a team of highly-skilled security engineers all working with a singular focus of maintaining Customer trust. You must demonstrate resilience and navigate ambiguous situations with composure and tact. Above all else, a strong sense of Customer Obsession is necessary to focus on the ultimate goal of keeping Amazon and its Customers secure with the highest priority.

Key job responsibilities

* Lead, manage, and develop a high performing technical team across multiple locations

* Serve as an escalation point and subject matter expert in incident response, engineering operations, and team triage activities as part of day to day operations.

* Lead the strategic direction and evolution of the team, including setting goals and establishing priorities

* Drive strategic initiatives by influencing leadership, key stakeholders, and partnering with teams throughout Amazon

* Lead effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities

* Lead improvements to Amazon programs and processes

* Write and deliver high-quality documents for technical and non-technical audiences

* Manage relationships with Customers and security researchers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree

- 5+ years experience in a technical security leadership role

- 5+ years of experience in Information Security related domains, with knowledge of security fundamentals, common application vulnerabilities, application attack vectors, methodologies, and tools

- 3+ years of experience driving Information Security initiatives across large diverse organizations

- 3+ years of experience communicating with a wide range of technical & non-technical partners and senior leadership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Ability to take ownership, self-motivate, and deliver results in highly ambiguous environments

- Experience with driving remediation/mitigation of security issues and control gaps

- Experience gathering and reporting metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency

- Technical knowledge of adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $157,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $272,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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