Web Application Firewall (WAF) makes it easy for customers to author firewall policies which inspect incoming HTTP requests to help protect their applications from attacks by allowing them to configure rules that allow, block, monitor (count), or CAPTCHA web requests based on conditions that they define. These conditions include IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, URI strings, SQL injection and cross-site scripting. By supporting association with CloudFront, Application Load Balancer, API Gateway, and AppSync customers can protect their applications and resources whether all in on the Cloud, maintaining on-premise data centers, or using a hybrid Cloud approach.
What challenges does the WAF Team tackle?
We build a highly available low latency distributed system that allows customers to propagate changes worldwide in minutes to respond to active attacks in real-time. We’re fully integrated with several others AWS Services to give customers the insight and control they need.
What is special about the WAF Team?
We own the direct customer experience as well as the per request processing of rules for CloudFront, API Gateway, Application Load Balancer, and AppSync. Not only do we build an AWS Security service, but we’re a customer of AWS using other AWS services to provide the solutions to our customers that scale and seamlessly integrate with their existing workflows. Leaders on our team get to solve some of the hardest computer science problems including building highly available distributed micro-services and global scaling across both AWS Regions and CloudFront edge locations.
Who we are looking for?
The WAF team is looking for a Principal Product Manager to help us build new services and improve our existing services for internal and external customers.
You will work closely with other teams, our security experts and engineers to identify opportunities to launch new products and continually improve our defenses against the threat actors.
For this role, your passion for network security, cloud computing and endpoint protection will need to complement a deep understanding of the business P&L.
We need strong technical candidates with proven analytical capabilities, strong persuasive writing skills, and the tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment.
Key job responsibilities
Growing and operating the AWS WAF business.
Working closely with a geographically distributed team, including engineering, product and go-to-market execution.
Partnering with product marketing, business development and sales to drive adoption and revenue.
Delivering innovative and iterative solutions to significantly improve the resiliency for the global Amazon network, Amazon.com, and all AWS services.
Contributing to the overall strategy for AWS Edge Security.
As an ideal candidate you demonstrate the ability to dive deep with a willingness to learn what you lack. You are able to review system designs and have a good sense of feasibility, operational stability, and time to deliver. You have exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions Strong product leadership. You have a history of innovative product definition backed by good judgment. You have excellent communication skills and the ability to drive cross-team collaboration
About the team
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- 7+ years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
- 5+ years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
- Experience delivering large-scale SaaS, PaaS or LaaS products where you are responsible for the full product lifecycle, from concept through GTM (go to market)
- Experience in the cyber security domain
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $163,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $281,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.