💼 Full-Time Position

Principal Security Engineer, AWS Security

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Amazon
📍 Dublin, Ireland, Ireland
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Location
Dublin, Ireland
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Posted
June 27, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Description
Come lead the technical strategy for how Amazon detects and stops the world's most sophisticated cyber threats!

We build and operate automated threat detection and mitigation systems that process over 1PB of security telemetry daily across host, network, identity, and physical security domains. As a Principal Security Engineer, you will define the technical direction for this work, identifying the hardest unsolved problems, designing and prototyping new cross-domain threat detection ideas, and driving these new initiatives to completion across multiple teams and organizations.

You will operate with high autonomy in ambiguous spaces where the problems are not handed to you. You will work alongside software development engineers, data scientists, and security engineers, mentoring across job families, building consensus across teams on technical and security trade-offs, and raising the technical bar for the org. Your work will directly protect every AWS cu...