Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Secure-by-Default AWS

Mapbox; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 161,500 - 218,500; Full time

Job summary

Mapbox is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join our Security & Compliance team. You will contribute to and improve security and compliance services across Mapbox's AWS-native cloud deployment, with a focus on building secure-by-default systems in a global, distributed environment.

You'll collaborate with developers and product teams to conduct AWS reviews, implement security improvements, and help scale threat detection and risk assessment across multiple regions, including China,

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: GuardDuty, CloudTrail, 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.

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

Cloud security

AWS security

Programming (Python/JS/TS)

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Job description

Mapbox is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join our Security & Compliance team. You will contribute to and improve security and compliance services across Mapbox's AWS-native cloud deployment, with a focus on building secure-by-default systems in a global, distributed environment.

You'll collaborate with developers and product teams to conduct AWS reviews, implement security improvements, and help scale threat detection and risk assessment across multiple regions, including China,