Cloud Wireless Security Detection Engineer II

Amazon; Minnesota; On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

The Wireless Security Assessments team at Amazon delivers continuous wireless risk visibility for facilities and operates AI-assisted workflows to automate data collection and triage. You will design, build, and maintain detection logic using RF telemetry and sensor data at global scale, turning noisy signals into actionable security intelligence.

You will also perform on-site assessments when needed, validate hypotheses with RF capture, and present findings to leadership.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of security-related professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in detection engineering, security data analysis, or security operations engineering.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with wireless security tools and concepts (e.g., wireless packet capture, spectrum analysis, WIDS, or wireless protocol analysis across 802.11, Bluetooth, IoT, or cellular)
• Experience with detection engineering and/or anomaly detection within security — writing detection logic, security rules, or threat signatures for production monitoring systems
• Experience with log aggregation and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OpenSearch, ELK, or equivalent) or security data lakes
• Experience directly working with cloud hosting technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python (or similar) for tooling, automation, and data analysis
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-based detection logic for wireless security threats using telemetry from distributed sensor systems and enterprise security tooling
• Analyze large-scale security data — RF metadata, wireless IDS alerts, syslog, and custom sensor telemetry — to identify anomalies, trends, and security issues
• Develop and refine data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and enrich wireless telemetry for continuous assessment and detection
• Own wireless security investigations from framing through outcome delivery
• Leverage and improve AI-assisted workflows — working alongside automation tooling for data collection, triage, and pattern recognition
• Conduct targeted on-site wireless assessments when physical validation is required, using wireless capture and analysis tools across relevant protocols
• Author risk-calibrated findings and drive remediation with facility owners and partner teams
• Build tools and automation that increase the team’s detection coverage and operational efficiency
• Present findings, briefs, and analysis to senior leadership, internal departments, and stakeholders
• Engage with partner teams to understand security concerns and educate on wireless security topics

Skills

Security

Detection engineering

Data analysis

Python

Cloud basics

Threat modeling

AI-assisted workflows

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/ EE/ related

Tools

Splunk

OpenSearch

ELK

Job description

The Wireless Security Assessments team at Amazon delivers continuous wireless risk visibility for facilities and operates AI-assisted workflows to automate data collection and triage. You will design, build, and maintain detection logic using RF telemetry and sensor data at global scale, turning noisy signals into actionable security intelligence.

You will also perform on-site assessments when needed, validate hypotheses with RF capture, and present findings to leadership.