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Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty

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Boston, MA, USA +2 moreMid Level
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Base Salary

$144k - $214k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Recognize and safely use attacker tools, tactics, and procedures.
  • Develop scripts, tools, and methodologies to enhance red-team capabilities.
  • Work with data scientists to develop and test detections for complex exploitation patterns.
  • Build attack simulations to validate tools and techniques.
  • Advise broader teams on the current threat landscape, tools, and techniques.
  • Detonate and analyze malware behavioral patterns.
  • Research attack patterns, conduct active testing, and mentor data scientists and software engineers.
  • Create intellectual property, influence others, and demonstrate creativity and self-criticism.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 2 years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
  • At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
  • At least 1 year designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
  • At least 1 year 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: at least 3 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the compensation package.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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