Privacy Engineer, Incident Response, Devices & Services Trust, Privacy, and Accessibility (TPA)

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 159,300 - 202,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon in Bellevue, WA, is looking for a Security and Privacy Incident Response Engineer to lead responses to privacy issues across devices and services. The role involves managing risk events, influencing teams, and developing best practices in data governance. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree, relevant certifications, and over 5 years of experience in security. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $159,300 to $202,400 annually, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in threat modeling, secure coding, or network security.
• Must hold relevant certifications like CCSP or CEH.
• 3+ years programming experience in object-oriented languages.

Responsibilities

• Manage privacy and trust risk events from start to finish.
• Interact with and influence other teams to support decisions.
• Develop recommendations for improving DSTP processes.

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Identity management

Network security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Python

Ruby

Java

C++

Job description

Description

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. You’ll 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's 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, Java, .Net, 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 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.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Bellevue - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually