Security Engineer, AWS Cross Domain Services

Security Engineer, AWS Cross Domain Services (Diode)

Job ID: 3118669 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

AWS is seeking a Cross Domain Services Security Engineer to support our government customers in the Intelligence, Defense, and National Security communities. We’re looking for someone passionate and deeply excited about this space. Someone who is devoted to helping customers understand how our services can make a big difference to their mission.

Are you excited to help leverage cross domain services in their classified missions? If you are eager to learn from a variety of enterprise use cases of AWS Diode and excited to become a key part of Amazon - who has been investing in cross domain services for a decade, pioneering, and shaping Cloud-CDS technology - then we welcome you to join us

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key Job Responsibilities

As a Security Engineer, you’ll help your customers plan their successful cloud CDS journey. You’ll solve complex, technical challenges, so your customers can focus on their mission. This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud CDS architectures. You’ll drive technical solutions discussions, diving deep into the details with customer teams.

As a customer‑obsessed advisor, you’ll also have the chance to shape the direction of our products and services. This is through gathering feedback from customers whilst collaborating with our engineering and product teams.

Candidates must have great communication skills and be very technical, with the ability to impress AWS customers at any level, from executive to developer. Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required, provided you have experience building large scale solutions. You will get the opportunity to work directly with senior engineers at customers, partners and AWS service teams, influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation.

A Day in the Life

- Build relationships to understand our customers and partners.

- Use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives.

- Help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long‑term goals.

- Speed up the adoption of our AWS Diode service as part of your day to day.

- Act as a thought leader in the wider community.

- Play a lead role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.

- You won’t just be part of an industry movement; you’ll be leading it.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

- 7+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object‑oriented language experience.

- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.

- Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language along with troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools.

- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience.

- Experience with AWS products and services.

- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++.

- Experience in scripting, programming, or security code reviewing in a common language, such as Python, Java, or C++.

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