Sr. Applied Scientist, Cedar Authorization

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Sr. Applied Scientist, Cedar Authorization FIN Are you passionate about authorization, programming languages, applying formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and/or theorem proving to real-world problems? Do you want to shape the future of an open-source authorization language that is becoming an industry standard? If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. Cedar is an open-source policy language and evaluation engine for authorization that is used across AWS services including Amazon Verified Permissions, AWS Systems Manager, and more. Cedar recently joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project, and we are looking for an Applied Scientist to help advance Cedar's adoption, maturity, and community presence across the cloud-native ecosystem. In this role, you will drive the science and engineering behind Cedar's integration into cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes, advance Cedar's formal verification and analysis capabilities, and serve as a technical leader and advocate within the CNCF community. You will interact with internal teams and external open-source communities to understand their authorization requirements, propose innovative solutions, create software prototypes, and productize prototypes into production systems. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use. Key job responsibilities Technical Responsibilities - Drive the design and development of Cedar's integration into cloud-native authorization environments, including Kubernetes and other CNCF ecosystem projects. - Advance Cedar's formal verification, SMT-based analysis, and policy validation capabilities to raise the bar for authorization assurance. - Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security,

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