Software Development Engineer, Security Analytics, AWS Security, Sonaris
About The Position
Come and build innovative services that protect our cloud from Internet-scale security threats! Use AI to help defenders outmaneuver threat actors. As an analytics engineer on our team, you’ll help build and manage software that detects and mitigates cybersecurity threats across Amazon, including unauthorized vulnerability scanning and exploit attempts. You’ll work with data scientists, security engineers, and other software engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at a massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and help preserve our customers’ trust in us. You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats – not many teams can say that! Our work is often highlighted at re:Invent, re:Inforce, security blogs, and podcasts!
Requirements
- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Understanding of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by threat actors or groups
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow) and networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience with analytic development for endpoint and/or network security
Responsibilities
- Research, identify, and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation
- Develop everything from detection prototypes to internet scale systems to solve classic and emergent security problems
- Deep dive into data to differentiate benign and malicious activity.
- Balance emergent security needs with the strategic advances we need to make the cloud safer for everyone.
- Stay aware of threat activity by digging into industry reports and querying security telemetry to find indicators and trends.
- Perform exploratory data analysis and your findings will be key to building the right security detections and mitigations.
- Write code for proofs of concept while also leveraging the talents of a multidisciplinary team to deliver operationally robust automated solutions.
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
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
