Senior Cloud Security Engineer (AWS Security & Risk)

Mapbox; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 161,500 - 218,500; Full time

Job summary

Mapbox, the leading real-time location platform, is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join its Security & Compliance team in the US. You will help mapbox engineers build secure-by-default systems and strengthen cloud security across AWS deployments, containers, and global regions.

In this role you will conduct security reviews, drive improvements with production teams, and collaborate with product teams to embed secure design principles early in development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or similar.
• 5+ years of experience in product or application security and related software engineering roles.
• Experience with AWS services like GuardDuty, CloudTrail log review, IAM, Security Groups, CloudFront, CloudFormation, S3, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB and RDS.
• Proficiency in a programming language (e.g. Python, JavaScript or Node.js or TypeScript), testing practices, and documentation.
• Subject matter expertise in security best practices and the ability to quickly make correct risk assessments that prioritize the overall benefit to the company.

Responsibilities

• Conduct AWS security reviews (deep dive into our AWS environment to validate security best practices are being followed).
• Make security improvements recommendations and work with our production support teams to implement security improvement in AWS.
• Partner with the Lead Security Architect in fixing custom-built security tools bots.
• Conduct in-depth security reviews of application code, working closely with developers to code securely from the outset and address issues early during coding and testing phases.
• Partner with internal product teams to implement a secure-by-default design into their own products.

Skills

Security engineering

AWS security

Programming in Python/JS/TS

Risk assessment

Security reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

AWS services (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, IAM, Security Groups, CloudFront, CloudFormation, S3, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS)

Job description

Mapbox, the leading real-time location platform, is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join its Security & Compliance team in the US. You will help mapbox engineers build secure-by-default systems and strengthen cloud security across AWS deployments, containers, and global regions.

In this role you will conduct security reviews, drive improvements with production teams, and collaborate with product teams to embed secure design principles early in development.