LastPass - Principal Cloud Security Engineer

LastPass is currently hiring a Principal Cloud Security Engineer to join their amazing team About the company: LastPass delivers Secure Access Essentials, helping individuals and organizations manage and protect access to AI, applications, and credentials straight from the browser. Trusted by more than 100,000 businesses and millions of users worldwide, LastPass blends strong security with everyday simplicity. From discovering unapproved AI and applications to reducing login friction and securing credentials across the business, LastPass delivers on its mission to give everyone seamless access to everything they need to work, move fast, and stay protected as their environments evolve. About the role: As a Principal Cloud Security Engineer at LastPass, you will partner with DevOps and CI/CD engineers and their Architects team to ensure security best practices are embedded across their cloud infrastructure. They are looking for an experienced security engineering leader with an ability to scale security and make the right trade-off decisions that enable them to offer secure, innovative solutions to customers. The Cloud Security team at LastPass is a collaborative group of talented cloud security engineers working in close partnership with their engineering, platform, and trust & security teams. They are on a mission to safeguard the privacy and security of their company and users' data, embedded directly in the heart of their product development.
Challenges:

• Act as a strategic security leader by defining and driving cloud security principles, standards, and reference architectures across the organization.
• Use your knowledge of security architecture to help engineers build and securely operate products and services from the ground up
• Assess, design, and implement security processes and controls to meet security, compliance, and audit requirements
  
• Perform proactive research to identify new threats and attack vectors
  
• Partner with engineering teams to embed shift-left security practices throughout the software development lifecycle
  
• Implement and manage cloud and Kubernetes security posture management tooling to continuously monitor and reduce risk across containerized workloads
  

Requirements:

• Proven experience working with AWS and AWS security services in a secure production environment, including IAM, Config, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty
  
• Proven experience working closely with engineering teams and supporting them on their path to shifting security left
  
• Background with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform), version control and CI tools such as GitLab and GitLab CI
  
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AWS EKS), containers (Docker, AWS ECS), K8s admission controllers and Supply Chain Security
  
• Solid understanding of internet and computer network protocols, including TCP/IP, TLS, and VPN
  
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English
  
• Collaborative team player with a hands-on, can-do approach to problem-solving
  

Nice to have:

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification or similar.
  
• General familiarity with AI tools and large language models (e.g., Claude by Anthropic, AWS Bedrock)

What they offer:

• The leader in secure access
  
• High-growth, collaborative environment with inclusive teams
  
• Remote-first culture
  
• Competitive compensation
  
• Flexible Paid Time Off policies, including but not limited to: Quarterly Self-Care Days (4 extra paid days off annually) and Volunteer Days
  
• Parental leave
  
• Comprehensive health coverage, including dependents
  
• Home office setup support
  
• LastPass Families free account for up to 5 members
  
• Continuous learning and development opportunities, including an annual learning stipend to invest in your growth
  
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Motivosity
  
• Employee Assistance Program for well-being support
  
• Remote work stipend to support your home office needs
  
• Short-Term or Remote-Centric Work Arrangements for added flexibility

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