The Data Operations and Engineering team in the Application Security Organization is seeking a creative, curious, and ambitious Senior Data Engineer to design, build and optimize the data infrastructure that powers Amazon's security monitoring and analytics solutions. You will play a key role in building highly scalable and reliable data pipelines that ingest, process and serve security data at a massive scale across Amazon's systems.

In this critical role, you will collaborate closely with Industry Specialists, Software Engineers, Security Engineers, and Product Managers to understand data requirements. You will architect data models, build ETL/ELT pipelines, and implement data distribution layers that enable advanced security use cases like threat detection, incident response, forensic analysis and data exploration. With your keen data engineering skills, you will empower AWS SOC to derive insights from our security telemetry data and drive continuous improvement of Amazon's security posture.

This is a unique opportunity to join a world-class team and have a direct impact on safeguarding Amazon's infrastructure and customer trust. We are looking for an exceptional data professional with deep expertise in distributed data systems and big data technologies on AWS. You will thrive in our dynamic environment by driving innovation, setting best practices, and mentoring other engineers.

Key job responsibilities
• Architect and build scalable data pipelines for ingesting, processing and serving security data from diverse sources across Amazon
• Design and implement data models, storage solutions and distributed processing frameworks for security analytics workloads
• Collaborate with data scientists to build features, transformations and serving layers for machine learning models
• Optimize data engineering systems for performance, cost, reliability, recoverability and security
• Automate data quality monitoring, testing and validation processes
• Partner with software engineering teams to seamlessly integrate data solutions with security applications and services


About the team
About Amazon Security

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.

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.

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Work/Life Balance
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