Principal Security Engineer (Container Services)

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in hundreds of countries around the world.

The AWS container organization is looking for a Security Engineer to join our new centralized Security Engineering team. As a Security Engineer on the team, you will help establish technical standards and drive the overall technical architecture and security practices across the entire containers organization, for services like EKS, ECS, Fargate, Beanstalk, App Runner and more. You’ll work on AWS’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. You’ll think globally when building systems, ensuring we build high performing, scalable, and secure systems that fit well together. AWS Security Engineers translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.

If you enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the strategic direction of a large organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity. Security Engineers are unique individuals prepared to relentlessly resolve security issues by gathering and analyzing data and conducting the root-cause analysis. If you enjoy analyzing networks, system services, operating systems, and applications from a security perspective, and you are skilled at discovering security issues that appear under new threat scenarios, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity. You will participate in the design, build, and deployment of security controls and security-focused services as well as provide consultation, architectural review, risk analysis, vulnerability testing, and security reviews of many elements of Amazon’s systems.

Position location is flexible, wherever AWS has a presence in the United States. Preferred locations: NYC, Boston, Arlington, Seattle, Dallas

Responsibilities of this role include:

• Evaluate, architect, and build security-focused tools and services
• Advise and consult with container software engineers on risk assessment, threat modeling, and vulnerability remediation
• Integrate knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including cryptography and the shared responsibility model into adoption models and methods for internal customers and partners
• Use your solid understanding of authentication protocols, core network and system security principles along with your up-to-date understanding of modern attack patterns and methods to drive security into tools used by Amazonians every day
• Draw heavily on your experience collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data from a variety of sources to create compelling written and verbal communications

About Us:


Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.


Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.


Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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

Basic Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, Engineering, Math, Statistics or related discipline, or additional equivalent technology experience
· 6 + years of experience in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
· 4+ years of experience in network, system, or software architecture; design, implementation, support, and evaluation of security-focused tools and services
· 4+ years of scripting or programming experience in Ruby, Python, Shell/BASH scripting, Java, C/C++, C*, Perl, or other languages
· 2+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: identity and access management, cryptography, web and network protocols, data structures and algorithms, software development, threat modelling, pen tests, or vulnerability assessments
· Proven track record of leading the delivery and operations of large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
· Deep hands-on technical expertise in Cyber Security and at least one relevant technical area: large scale systems engineering, queuing and messaging, Linux networking, performance analysis, software-defined networking, etc.
· Experience managing complex projects, with significant bottom-line impact
· Experience playing a visionary technical leadership role within a large organization

Preferred Qualifications

• · Have a clear understanding of cloud computing services/deployment architecture

· Demonstrate innovative security approaches in non-traditional IT environments
· Have experience generating automated metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency
· Have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
· Have experience in the development of security products
· Demonstrable teamwork skills and resourcefulness
· Possess self-drive to keep moving things forward even in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge (avoid “analysis paralysis”)
· Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
· Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills
· Experience defining cyber-secure architectures, design and development of asynchronous messaging platforms
· Knowledge of networking protocols and their implementations
· Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures and distributed algorithms
· Deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability
· Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Security.



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.