Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty is a customer facing threat detection service that was built to protect applications and services running in AWS. The service processes trillions of events and applies advanced analytics and machine learning to detect threats. If you are interested in learning about operating a service at massive scale and working alongside world class engineers then this role is for you.

The Security Engineer position will be working on Amazon GuardDuty which is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. It monitors for activity such as unusual API calls or potentially unauthorized deployments that indicate a possible account compromise. GuardDuty also detects potentially compromised instances or reconnaissance by attackers. This is an advanced engineering team that is using cutting edge techniques to help customers assess monitor and protect their cloud based resources. We are looking for an experienced security engineer with red team penetration testing skills to join this team to research tune and validate our detection mechanisms.

A successful candidate for this role will have a deep understanding of both information security and computer science. If you can exploit at scale while remaining stealthy identify and exploit misconfigurations in network resources develop out of the box techniques and communicate complex info in a digestible manner you could be an ideal candidate.

The scope of this role includes researching attack patterns building attack simulations active testing and mentoring data scientists and software this role you will interface with many internal security teams to keep up to date with the latest attack techniques.

Key job responsibilities
As a Security Engineer youll:

- Recognize and safely utilize attacker tools tactics and procedures
- Develop scripts tools or methodologies to enhance red team capabilities
- Work with data scientists to help develop and test detections for complex exploitation patterns
- Build simulations to validate tools and techniques
- Advise broader team on current threat landscape tools & techniques
- Ability to a detonate and analyze behavioral patterns of Malware
- Create Intellectual Property influence others while demonstrating significant creativity and being vocally self-critical

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at MA Boston - 159300.00 - 202400.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 159300.00 - 212800.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 159300.00 - 202400.00 USD annually

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