Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Boston (MA); 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

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Security Engineer for Amazon GuardDuty to design, test, and improve threat detection at massive scale. You will research attack patterns, build simulations, and mentor engineers and data scientists.

Ideal candidates have deep information security knowledge, strong CS background, and experience exploiting at scale while remaining stealthy. The role involves cross-team collaboration and cutting-edge techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field.
• 3+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 1+ years of architecture/design experience for large systems.
• 1+ years of OO design experience.
• Experience programming in at least one language (C#, C++, Java or Perl).

Responsibilities

• Recognize attacker tools, tactics and procedures safely.
• Develop scripts or tools to enhance red team capabilities.
• Collaborate with data scientists to test detections.
• Build simulations to validate tools and techniques.
• Advise team on threat landscape and techniques.
• Detonate and analyze malware behavioral patterns.

Skills

Software development experience

Design/architecture

Object oriented design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Description

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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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.

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Company

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Job ID: A10569420