Principal Security Engineer, AWS Security Testing

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AWS Security is looking for a Principal Security Engineer to help ensure that our systems and processes are secured against the latest threats. You will be on a team responsible for conducting both pre and post launch testing, offensive campaigns, emergent threat testing, creating/maintaining automated threat emulation solutions, and helping security and service teams add offensive insight to their development, deployment, monitoring, and response processes. Offensive security at scale is a unique challenge - AWS possesses both scale of systems and scale of staff and processes. This team partners with the larger Security team and Service teams to continuously validate security throughout the service/system lifecycle. This position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.

A Principal Engineer at Amazon is expected to be a domain expert in multiple domains. This is a leadership role within the AWS Security team and will be sought out for advice on technical and business issues. Efficient time management skills are required along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty. A Principal Engineer will proactively share knowledge across the Amazon community and will be a key company resource in one or more of the core areas of security. They will lead security testing of large Amazon projects while setting standards and defining best practices for the AWS Security team.

Engineers in this role must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals. They must also demonstrate resilience and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact. Conflicts should be addressed by listening, finding the best way forward and persuading one’s colleagues. Successful engineers in this role will regularly analyze their own performance with a critical eye. A broad understanding of the AWS business and its interconnections is required. This position will also provide training, advice, and mentorship to other engineers throughout AWS.

This role will be expected to provide thought leadership for the organization as you invent and innovate in the course of your duties.

Key job responsibilities
* Mentorship and role model engineering and LP behaviors
* Recommendation and calibration of findings and threat mitigations
* Bar raise and produce high quality testing plans and reports
* Offensive security testing & vulnerability research
* Vulnerability Identification and Tracking
* Emergent threat testing
* Creating/maintaining automated threat emulation solutions
* Projects and research work as needed
* Security training and outreach to internal development teams
* Security guidance documentation
* Security tool development
* Security metrics delivery and improvements
* Assistance with recruiting activities

About the team
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

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. 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.

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