Security Engineer, Threat Detection

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Are you excited about advancing the state of threat detection at scale to
mitigate risk from an ever-evolving threat landscape impacting a diverse range
of businesses?

Amazon Stores Security's Threat Detection team is looking for a highly motivated
Security Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will research emerging
threats to develop new detection ideas and build high-confidence detections that
proactively identify malicious activity across large-scale log data. You will
work closely with Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, and
Red Team to understand threat models and deliver detections that enable rapid
response. You will also develop innovative methods utilizing the latest
techniques to detect threats at scale. Your expertise will help defend the data
of Amazon's millions of customers against the most critical threats.

Most days you'll be heads-down building and tuning detections, digging into log
data to figure out what malicious activity looks like and how to catch it
reliably. You'll spend time reading up on the latest threats and turning that
research into something actionable. You'll also work on advancing how we detect
threats, whether that's prototyping new approaches using machine learning or
generative AI, improving enrichment pipelines, or finding ways to scale what we
do. It's a mix of deep technical work and close collaboration with security
teams across the organization.

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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements
are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,
there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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 and 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.

Requirements

• Experience triaging and developing security alerts and response automation, conducting front-line analysis, and providing escalation support
• Experience scripting with Python, Perl, Bash or PowerShell
• Knowledge of web protocols, common attacks, and Linux/Unix tools and architecture
• Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and design considerations
• 1+ years of non academic experience in any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution, or experience leading and influencing your team or organization

Responsibilities

• Identify critical threats targeting Amazon's network by leveraging threat intelligence and security research, then deliver high-fidelity threat detections aligned to attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Enhance detection engineering processes by improving how detections are scoped, prioritized, developed, tested, and maintained throughout their lifecycle.
• Develop platform requirements to enrich alerts with contextual data, reduce false positives, and automate remediation and response actions in coordination with incident response teams.
• Research and develop mechanisms to advance detection capabilities through machine learning, advanced data correlation, risk-based alerting, or generative AI.
• Automate your way through challenges using Python or other scripting languages to build tooling, validate detections, and streamline operational workflows at scale.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed