Data Engineering Manager, Defensive Security
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Description
Do you thrive on obsessing about our data and think around the corner to transform data into new insights and leverage best in class data products and solutions to make high-judgement decisions ? Are you looking for an opportunity to build data analytics and insights that put people first? The Security Issue Management engineering group, part of Stores Security, is looking for an innovative, passionate, and outcome-oriented data engineering leader.
What we do
The Security Issue Management team builds solutions that keep Amazon systems and data secure on behalf of the Amazon customer. Our customers range from security engineers who need a comprehensive understanding of Amazon systems and their security state, to service teams who need solutions that make it easy to build and operate secure systems. We use the latest technology, including AWS, to solve security problems at Amazon scale. We employ automation and machine learning to reduce, or eliminate, manual effort to help our internal customers raise the security bar. We have bold goals to stay ahead of the curve on security and delight our customers with intuitive and effective products.
What you will do
As a Data Engineering Manager, you will lead an agile team of data engineers, business intelligence engineers, software developers, and program and product managers who solve complex security challenges that have direct and measurable impact on our customers. Our programs stretch across all of Amazon, giving you the opportunity to interact with product teams, industry specialists, security partners, and organization leaders.
Come and join a creative, diverse, and collaborative team that is changing how we think about security! At Amazon, security is job zero, and our team is responsible for creating and automating data security solutions at Amazon scale in support of the vulnerability management program. We are data-driven, set big goals, and are always challenging ourselves raise the security bar at Amazon.
In this role, you will dig in to our customers' most difficult requests by analyzing and processing big data using various security data and analytics platforms, and partnering to create data and analytics solutions that will improve our builders' experience with security and meet our compliance goals.
This position requires deep customer focus and the ability to build relationships and feedback loops to continuously improve products based on evolving customer needs and security goals. You will obsess about our data and think around the corner to transform data into new insights. You will have ownership over your design solutions from conception through implementation, working closely with engineering teams to ensure the high standards of your designs are maintained. You will guide the team to build and maintain data infrastructure, develop and improve analytics products, simplify data access and unlock self-service insights.
What you bring
You have an “anything is possible” mindset when faced with highly ambiguous and complex problems. You are proud of your work, skills, judgment, and expertise – but you are simultaneously eager to listen to feedback from others. You have a background in complex data products or developing deep understanding in technical or scientific domains, geek out over customer experience, and believe that no experience is perfect unless it delights customers in unexpected ways. You have demonstrated design acumen and believe in the power of strategic design to differentiate experience and increase customer trust. You are an influencer who doesn’t hold your ideas as precious and who iterates quickly, based on data, and delivers recommendations and analysis that tell the story of the customer experience your team is delivering.
Why you want to be on the Security Issue Management team
We are technology professionals, who are genuinely passionate about continuously improving the security of Amazon systems on behalf of the Amazon customer. We also take pride in reducing the effort required for service teams across Amazon to build and maintain their systems securely. We are on a mission, have fun working together, and have a culture of learning and career growth.
Key job responsibilities
Hire and develop a team of high-performing DEs and BIEs to create and support datasets, metrics and KPIs to meet our business goals. Work with PMs, PMTs, SDMs, and Tech team members to to build relevant data products and solutions. Architecture design and implementation of next generation data pipelines and BI solutions Manage AWS resources including EC2, RDS, Redshift, Kinesis, EMR, Lambda etc. Build and deliver high quality data architecture and pipelines to support business analyst, data scientists, and customer reporting needs. Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for customers
A day in the life
You will own and contribute to studies that evaluate the customer experience of executing use cases on security issue management services, as well as technology/industry trends and the voice of the customer. You will join an expanding team, leverage your technical and domain skills, and apply a variety of methodologies to drive these studies. You will collaborate with product teams and senior leaders to provide insights and drive improvements that help us achieve our vision to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company.
About The Team
We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings to raise the bar in security. Security issue management system is SDO’s centralized tool with the goal of becoming the only place SDO builders need to go to understand and manage their security issues and to drive action on the highest security risk areas of the business as well as for security teams to drive campaigns efficiently and effectively while simultaneously reducing the effort teams spend on security related tasks.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security 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.
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.
Work/Life Balance
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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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 and 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 are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of data engineering experience 2+ years of processing data with a massively parallel technology (such as Redshift, Teradata, Netezza, Spark or Hadoop based big data solution) experience 2+ years of developing and operating large-scale data structures for business intelligence analytics (using ETL/ELT processes) experience Experience communicating to senior management and customers verbally and in writing Experience leading and influencing the data or BI strategy of your team or organization
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR Experience with AWS Tools and Technologies (Redshift, S3, EC2) Knowledge of Data modelling, advanced SQL with Oracle, MySQL, and Columnar Databases at an advanced level Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS Experience and demonstrated industry leadership in the fields of database or data warehousing, data sciences and big data processing
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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $264,500/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.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2604587
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