Project Kuiper Security Role

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. The Kuiper Security team owns the security of product and operations of Project Kuiper end-to-end. You will work in a start-up like environment, backed by Amazon's infrastructure to bootstrap security mechanisms, and help instill the security culture in the organization.

Key Job Responsibilities

You will be responsible for establishing product-specific security bar, threat models & defense priorities. These will aide the team in ensuring consistent security execution across the business. You'll identify design & implementation defects. You'll support product development processes by providing consultation services on difficult security decisions. You will collaborate with business leaders to define security priorities. You will support product leaders by acting as a trusted advisor. You will support leaders by providing them with direction that makes security easy. You will help leaders measure their org's security execution. You'll guide teams towards outcomes that produce products that safely handle customer data. You will collaborate with engineers to assess technical debt and risk. You will provide strategic direction that addresses vulnerabilities and fortifies our products. You will be a resource that leads the burn down of long-term risk. You will guide engineers towards solutions that are secure by default. If secure-by-default solutions don't exist, you will invent & propose them. You will advocate for the creation & deployment of new testing tools, and detection mechanisms. You will propose a security vision for the business that delivers security that protects our customers. And last of all, you will hack some really cool bleeding edge tech!

A Day In The Life

In this highly dynamic role, you'll be accountable for deciding where your time investments provide the most value. You will have a blend of proactive and reactive work. Teams will reach out for ideas on how to handle a wide variety of security problems. You can anticipate implementation questions like "What's the right way to secure communications in Kuiper?" "What is the state of the art for cryptographic constructs?" "We need to define security requirements for a confidential new product launch." "We've experienced an incident and need to perform 5 why's analysis to identify and correct the problem that produced the incident."

About The Team

The Kuiper Trust Services team owns the creation and operation of services to protect customer data and Kuiper devices. Candidates for this role must have a background in one of the following: PKI (public key infrastructure), HSMs (Hardware Security Modules), SecureBoot, Encryption, Cryptography, Key Management, or Secure Device Provisioning.

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. 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.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, or related field, or equivalent work experience 5+ years delivering security software in a production environment 3+ years experience developing distributed software systems in Java, Rust, GoLang or C/C+ 3+ years experience in working with cloud-native environments Experience with at least one of PKI (public key infrastructure), HSMs (Hardware Security Modules), Encryption, Cryptography, Key Management, HSMs (Hardware Security Modules), SecureBoot, or Secure Device Provisioning.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in performing and/or participating in technical security assessments, e.g. code level and design level assessments Master's degree with a specialization in information security Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations that produce results Experience developing security tools & processes that work at scale Experience triaging security risks/vulnerabilities and ensuring that they are properly understood by the business and fixed and/or mitigated. Hands-on experience with satellite communications and management software Experience with low-level programming and embedded systems

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