Sr. Applied Scientist, Cedar Authorization

Full-time Science, Research and Teaching

Description

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 t...