Principal DevOps Engineer

Malwarebytes is looking for..

A sharp, security-minded Principal DevOps Engineer to join our Consumer team.

You will architect and manage our AWS infrastructure using Terraform, enforce

cloud security best practices at every layer, make cost-conscious infrastructure

decisions that balance performance with efficiency, and drive modern CI/CD

automation across the organization. You will own site reliability for our

production systems and set the engineering standards that the team builds

against. In addition to deep technical execution, you will provide leadership

and mentorship to the engineering team, interface with executive leadership on

platform strategy and investment, and lead cross-functional infrastructure

projects. If you hold security and reliability to a high standard, default to

automation over manual process, and can operate credibly at every level of the

organization, we want to hear from you.

Annual Compensation Range: $125 - 145K

What You Will Do

• * Own and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, applying
• security best practices — least-privilege IAM, network
• segmentation, secrets management, and compliance guardrails — as
• non-negotiable defaults.
• * Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub
• Actions, ensuring automated security scanning (SAST, secrets detection,
• container image scanning), policy enforcement, and quality gates are built
• into every pipeline.
• * Champion infrastructure security: proactively identify and remediate cloud
• misconfigurations, leverage GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Config, and partner
• with the Security team on vulnerability management and incident response.
• * Own and improve SRE practices: define SLOs, build alerting and observability
• solutions using CloudWatch and related tooling, and drive blameless
• post-mortems.
• * Participate in on-call rotation and own production incidents end-to-end —
• from detection through resolution and follow-up.
• * Maintain build and release environments for development teams and develop
• automation and test tooling for client applications.
• * Evaluate and adopt emerging DevOps technologies through structured
• proof-of-concept testing.
• * Keep documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams current and
• actionable.
• * Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and strategic guidance to the
• engineering team; conduct architecture and code reviews and define team
• engineering standards.
• * Interface with executive leadership to communicate platform strategy, risk,
• and investment tradeoffs; lead and drive cross-functional infrastructure
• projects from scoping through delivery.
• Skills You'll Need to Have:
• * 7-10+ years of hands-on DevOps or SRE experience, with at least
• 5 years operating production workloads in AWS at scale — EC2, ECS, ECR,
• Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, EKS, and CloudFront required.
• * BA/BS in Engineering or Computer Science preferred; equivalent
• experience demonstrated through a proven track record accepted. An ideal
• candidate holds one or more AWS Professional-level certifications (Solutions
• Architect Professional, DevOps Professional, or equivalent).
• * Deep Terraform expertise: you write modular, reusable, well-tested
• infrastructure code and treat IaC security as seriously as application
• security.
• * Strong GitHub Actions experience building pipelines as code, including
• integrated security scanning (SAST, secrets detection, and container image
• scanning). Jenkins experience is a plus.
• * Demonstrable cloud security depth: hands-on experience with GuardDuty,
• Security Hub, Config, SCPs, and related tools and practices.
• * Strong scripting and automation — Python, Go, or Bash — with a track
• record of eliminating manual toil.
• * Solid Linux system administration and container management (Docker). Windows
• Server and Windows container experience is a plus.
• * Proven SRE practice experience: SLO definition, observability design, and
• post-mortem-driven reliability improvement.
• * Familiarity with cross-platform code compilation (Windows and macOS), code
• signing, and software supply chain security.
• * Active, daily use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or
• equivalent) is expected as a core part of this role — you treat these tools
• as a force multiplier and stay current with how AI is reshaping DevOps and
• SRE workflows.
• * Strong communication and documentation skills: capable of writing
• architecture proposals, leading design reviews, and producing runbooks that
• on-call engineers can act on under pressure.
• * Demonstrated ability to operate at a principal or staff engineer level —
• influencing architecture across teams, driving technical decisions through
• ambiguity, and raising engineering quality across the organization.
• * Proven experience providing technical leadership and mentorship to
• engineering teams and interfacing with executive leadership on platform
• strategy, risk, and infrastructure investment decisions.
• Perks & Benefit:
• * Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• * Employee Referral Bonus Program
• * Wellness programs
• * 401k and employer matching for (US Employees)
• * Comprehensive Time Off policy
• * An opportunity to do something great for yourself and the world!
• (Benefits and Perks subject to change by country/region)
• Legal Language:
• (US Employees Only)
• Applicants have rights under the Federal Employment Laws:
• * Employee Polygraph Protection Act
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• * Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
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• This is to affirm our policy of providing equal employment opportunities to all
• employees and applicants for employment in accordance with all applicable laws
• and regulations.
• Our company will not discriminate against or harass any employee or applicant
• for employment because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex,
• sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, marital status, familial
• status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or status
• regarding public assistance. We will ensure that all our employment practices
• are free of discrimination. Such employment practices include, but are not
• limited to, the following: hiring, upgrading, demotion, transfer, recruitment or
• recruitment advertising, selection, layoff, disciplinary action, termination,
• rates of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training,
• including apprenticeship. We will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants
• and employees with disabilities whenever possible.