Description

Amazon’s Subsidiary and Acquisition (S&A) Security team is looking for a highly motivated Threat Detection Engineer to join our team and implement detective and protective mechanisms for our products. You will play a pivotal role in fortifying our defense mechanisms and proactively identifying and mitigating potential threats. You should be a technically experienced and innovative security engineer who has the ability to understand systems, security, and privacy processes, communicate to customers, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Threat Detection: Utilize previous experience analyzing large datasets to develop, measure, and tune detection rules to ensure effective and sustainable operations.

• Forensics and Analysis: Analyze incidents to understand attack vectors, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).

• Threat Hunting: Search for signs of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and other malicious

activities, utilizing internal data sources.

• Rule and Content Development: Craft and refine detection rules, use cases and signatures to enhance the accuracy of detection systems, adapting to emerging threats and attack vectors.

• Incident Response: Build mechanisms and detections to enable partner Incident Response teams triaging issues impacting the customer experience.

• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with incident responders, security engineers, and other stakeholders to improve the security posture of the S&A customer organizations.

A day in the life

The Subsidiary and Acquisition (S&A) Security team designs and engineers high-profile consumer devices, including the Ring, Blink, Amazon Keys, and Side walk family of products. The S&A team works to ensure that our services are designed and implemented to the high standards required to maintain and enhance customer trust. Security and Privacy are paramount to maintaining trust and we need to continue to build trusted products, maintain and operate trusted environments, and advocate trust to customers and stakeholders.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Austin, TX, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Hawthorne, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA | Washington DC, DC, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a security engineering role.

• 3+ years of experience across various Linux distributions including Redhat, Ubuntu and CentOS.

• 2+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience.

• 2+ years of experience with AWS core services (EC2, S3, DDB, RDS, KMS, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Software Engineer, Security, or others) or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

• Knowledge of common attack tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).

• Knowledge of Data Science best practices with proven experience evaluating large datasets.

• Experience with analyzing logs, network traffic and endpoint data to identify malicious activity.

• Familiarity with system security and SIEM platforms.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills while engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.