Security Engineer II: Ad Fraud Threat Hunter

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited is seeking a Security Engineer for the Traffic Quality team to research and mitigate advertising fraud threats. The role focuses on building detection techniques, reverse engineering malware, and collaborating with global security teams to enhance advertiser trust.

You will work on high-impact projects to defend ad spend and protect publisher revenue while expanding your expertise in network security and threat intelligence within a fast-growing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language.
• You have passion for reverse engineering, malware analysis, threat detection and risk hunting.

Responsibilities

• Research programmatic advertising risk landscapes to build understanding of threats.
• Build specialized techniques to detect and mitigate threats and protect advertiser spend.
• Collaborate with security teams across Amazon to share intelligence and devise durable detection techniques.

Skills

Networking protocols

Python

Reverse engineering

Malware analysis

Threat detection

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited is seeking a Security Engineer for the Traffic Quality team to research and mitigate advertising fraud threats. The role focuses on building detection techniques, reverse engineering malware, and collaborating with global security teams to enhance advertiser trust.

You will work on high-impact projects to defend ad spend and protect publisher revenue while expanding your expertise in network security and threat intelligence within a fast-growing