principal Cloud Security Engineer ic · Posted May 19, 2026
$182,800 – $247,300
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a principal-level Cloud Security Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, LLMs, Distributed Systems, System Design. Compensation is listed at $182,800–$247,300 per year.

Role
Cloud Security Engineer
Function
security
Level
principal
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Seattle, WA
Department
Solutions Architect
Posted
May 19, 2026

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Application deadline: May 24, 2026 AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise in critical security domains. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers facing complex security challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. SSAs craft secure, scalable, and resilient technical architectures that address these challenges while maintaining the highest security standards. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA! This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers and partners succeed. Together, specialists and partners provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges. Key job responsibilities • Lead complex AI security engagements with enterprise customers, guiding their adoption of secure AI architectures including Bedrock guardrails, agentic identity and access patterns, and AI governance frameworks • Help customers deploy and operationalize AWS AI-powered security services, including Security Agent, to accelerate threat detection, investigation, and response • Design security architectures for generative AI and agentic workloads, addressing model access control,…

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