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.




Key job 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.