Role overview

Principal Cloud Security Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Requirements

  • 8+ years software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or cloud security
  • Strong hands-on experience in AWS security engineering in multi-account environments
  • Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code, especially Terraform, including reusable modules and tested patterns.
  • Strong software engineering or platform engineering background; ability to write production-quality code in at least one modern language such as C#, Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript
  • Experience with policy-as-code, preventive guardrails, configuration governance, or cloud-native policy enforcement
  • Hands-on experience securing Kubernetes/EKS and serverless patterns in AWS
  • Experience building detective and preventive controls for cloud logging, monitoring, and control plane integrity.

Benefits

  • bonus
  • healthcare
  • PTO
  • retirement
  • learning budget
  • parental leave
  • wellness
  • visa/relocation
  • remote flexibility
  • stipends
  • paid holidays
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FocusPrincipal Security EngineerRole area
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StackAWS, Java, KubernetesPrimary skills
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