10 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research, identify, and prioritize security problems suitable for automated detection.
- Develop detection prototypes and improve security detection capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to prevent security issues across large-scale infrastructure.
- Build and manage services that detect and automate mitigation of cybersecurity threats.
- Research, identify, and mitigate complex risks using new technologies.
- Mentor and develop teammates technically and professionally.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in security investigations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and/or incident response in large organizations.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team leader.
- Knowledge of HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP networking protocols.
- Programming experience in at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, or Ruby.
- Understanding of threat-actor Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
- Knowledge of host and network telemetry data such as process lists, application logs, and NetFlow.
- Preferred: experience creating enterprise threat detections and developing endpoint or network security analytics.
- Preferred: experience using IAM, Lambda, EC2, VPC, and S3 for security response or automation.
- Preferred: experience with GenAI, data science, machine learning, big data analytics, or streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark Streaming, or Kinesis.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of the work culture.
- Benefits include health, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Amazon provides knowledge-sharing, training, and career-advancement resources.
- Workplace accommodations are available during the application and hiring process.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.