Principal Security Engineer, AWS Network Servcies, AWS Network Services

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Security is our highest priority at AWS. As an AWS customer, you benefit from an
environment built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive
organizations. You will help secure that environment for our customers while
working on security products for a variety of platforms and technologies, all
operating at massive scale.

We are looking for an experienced security engineering leader with an ability to
scale security and make the right trade-off decisions that enable us to offer
secure, innovative solutions to customers. As a Principal Security Engineer, you
help evolve our Threat Intelligence and Network Security Services (such as WAF,
BOTS, DDoS Protection) to protect against the ever changing attack landscape -
in terms of using AI for Security and Security for AI workloads.

In this role you will make high-judgement security decisions that impact every
AWS customer. You will coach and inspire more junior security engineers enabling
them to make better decisions. We are looking for a leader that's passionate
about the potential of Generative AI, and building a high performing software
engineering team. Ideally you have a track record of raising the security bar
for high quality technology products and services, in a hyper-growth environment
where priorities shift quickly. You should know how to prioritize, communicate
clearly and compellingly, and understand how to drive outcomes and excellence
with a strong team.

Requirements

• Minimum 12+ years of experience in delivering cyber security solution to external customers.
• Demonstrated experience creating effective security strategies that balance prevention and detection, drive risk reduction and mitigation.
• Hands-on security engineering and software development role. Comfortable with shipping production code.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or other related discipline
• Experience with gathering/developing Threat Intelligence, and leveraging those into building customer facing services.

Responsibilities

• Building scalable security services that protect our customer workloads against emerging threats
• Offering recommendations and fine-tuning findings to enhance threat mitigations, ensuring robust security measures are in place.
• Owning the definition of best practices for the software development lifecycle used by junior engineers, including its design, implementation, testing, and operational characteristics.
• Delivering meaningful security metrics to stakeholders and continuously improving the metrics for better insight into the security landscape.
• Communicating with influential customers to both explain the technology and understand requirements.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal