Privacy Engineer, Incident Response, Devices and Services Trust and Privacy (DSTP)

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.
- Support 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 Trust Fundamentals’ Privacy GRC team within DSTP, which includes developing a set of processes, tools, and compliance mechanisms to improve leadership decision making and performance through an integrated view of how well D&S manages its unique set of privacy risks.

Our GRC team values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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 and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelors Degree or Equivalent experience in a technical field. Experience performing security investigations, penetration testing and/or incident response in the context of large organizations
- Understanding of security and privacy threats, hands-on experience detecting and managing privacy incidents, and experience using big data analytics and orchestration to address privacy challenges
- Ability to develop code with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust and security/privacy code review
- Must be a good human who enjoys working with a fun team

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience triaging and developing security alerts and response automation, conducting front-line analysis, and providing escalation support
- Knowledge of system, network and OS

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/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.