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

engineers.

In 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, you’ll:
• - 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 Basic

Qualifications

• - 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
• - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering,
• Mathematics, or a related field
• - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• - 3+ years of full software development life cycle,
• including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build
• processes, testing, and operations experience
• - Bachelor's 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
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• information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
• [https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits].
• USA, MA, Boston - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually