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Base Salary
$200k - $271k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture of authorization modeling and evaluation on the S3 request path, including policy surfaces, caching, and scalable access decisions.
- Design security controls that are clear, predictable, and easy for customers and auditors to understand.
- Shape the broader S3 API and request path for latency, availability, performance, and usability.
- Set technical standards for security design reviews and threat modeling across a large engineering organization.
- Lead cross-team technical strategy, influence partner organizations, and grow senior engineers.
- Represent technical strategy to enterprise customers and their security and compliance teams.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Depth in at least one relevant security domain, such as authorization and access control, identity, or applied cryptography.
- Experience owning components where correctness, latency, and availability are all critical.
- A record of technical leadership across multiple teams, including designs adopted by other teams.
- Experience mentoring and developing senior engineers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication with engineers, senior executives, customers, and security stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with request-path authorization under strict latency budgets, high-throughput request serving, policy languages, formal methods, automated reasoning, key management, encryption at scale, data lake security, and architectural strategy.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health, medical advice line, and flexible spending benefits.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall Amazon package.
- The base salary range is $200,100.00–$270,600.00 annually for USA, Washington, Seattle.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.