Security Engineer II - GuardDuty Threat Detection Red Team

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon GuardDuty is seeking a Security Engineer to advance threat detection capabilities for a managed service. You will research attack patterns, build simulations, and mentor data scientists and software engineers.

You will apply red team techniques, exploit misconfigurations, and clearly communicate findings across internal teams. The role operates at massive scale with cutting-edge tooling and cross-group collaboration in the Seattle area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• STEM degree or 2+ years IT security experience
• Knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP)
• Preferred qualifications include Python/Java/C++ scripting

Responsibilities

• Recognize and safely utilize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures
• Develop scripts, tools or methodologies to enhance red team capabilities
• Work with data scientists to develop and test detections for complex exploitation patterns
• Build simulations to validate tools and techniques
• Advise broader team on current threat landscape, tools and techniques
• Ability to detonate and analyze malware behavioral patterns

Skills

Red team testing

Scripting

Threat modeling

Security experimentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or STEM

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Python

Java

C++

AWS

Job description

Amazon GuardDuty is seeking a Security Engineer to advance threat detection capabilities for a managed service. You will research attack patterns, build simulations, and mentor data scientists and software engineers.

You will apply red team techniques, exploit misconfigurations, and clearly communicate findings across internal teams. The role operates at massive scale with cutting-edge tooling and cross-group collaboration in the Seattle area.